Friday, April 21, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Marine Le Pen wants to “make France French again.” We look at the first round of the country’s presidential election on Sunday, and its many parallels to the presidential election in the United States last year — including signs of meddling by Russia. Guests: Adam Nossiter, a New York Times reporter based in Paris; Andrew Higgins, a Times reporter in Russia. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.
0:09.5	Today, a presidential election with a far-left candidate who wants to tax the rich
0:14.5	and a populist candidate promising to close the borders, signs of meddling by the Russian government.
0:20.5	We are talking, of course, about this weekend's elections in France.
0:25.5	It's Friday, April 21st.
0:33.5	I do want to warn you, as I think I've told you in the past, that my French pronunciation is not very good,
0:40.5	and it mortifies my husband who is a fluent French speaker.
0:43.5	So I may ask you to pronounce with an eye towards educating me the names of the two candidates
0:49.5	that we're going to be focused on here today.
0:52.5	So, Zoruk, Middle-Saw is the far-left candidate, and I'm not even a badist, the far-right candidate.
0:58.5	Start with the far-left one more time really slowly, and I'm going to own that one.
1:01.5	Zoruk, Middle-Saw.
1:03.5	Zoruk, Middle-Saw.
1:05.5	Middle-Saw.
1:06.5	Okay, Adam Nossider is based in Paris. Adam, you probably realize this, we're paying closer attention to elections
1:12.5	in all of Europe this year than we've probably done in the past because of what feels like a set of global forces
1:19.5	that we recognize from our own presidential election last year.
1:23.5	And of course, every country is incredibly different, but just to start, how is this French presidential campaign similar to the 2016 election in the US?
1:35.5	Well, you've got a similar set of social and economic circumstances.
1:41.5	France's December job data is out and 30,000 more people are out of a job.
1:49.5	The serious issue of lack of jobs is turning into a political problem.
1:52.5	You've got a whole section of the French population that is unemployed.
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