L??lectioncast: the result
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Emmanuel Macron wins five more years as French president after beating Marine Le Pen…
Adam is joined by our Europe Editor Katya Adler and the BBC's Jessica Parker, as well as French pollster Edouard Lecerf, to chew over the election results.
This bonus episode of Newscast was made by Tim Walklate and Danny Wittenberg. The technical producer was Rohan Madison and the assistant editor was Sam Bonham. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, we're recording this bonus episode of newscast on Sunday night because it's the results of the French presidential election. |
| 0:12.0 | And Emmanuel Macron has beaten Marine Le Pen and the first French president to be re-elected since 2002. |
| 0:20.0 | He got about 58% of the vote and she got 42% of the vote, |
| 0:24.7 | which is a much, much narrower margin of victory than when he was first elected back in 2017. |
| 0:31.1 | And here is how our colleagues on French TV broke the news. |
| 0:34.1 | More than a quarter of French who, of Marine Le Pen or of Emmanuel Macron, you broke the news. |
| 0:45.9 | Obviously in Macroles' camp, that was met with jubilation. Five, nine, three, two, one. |
| 0:50.3 | One. |
| 0:52.7 | Wow! |
| 0:52.9 | Wow! And you can imagine the reaction down the road at Le Penh HQ. |
| 1:02.0 | So we'll discuss what has been going on and what this means for France, for Europe and the world, on this special edition of Newscast. |
| 1:22.1 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:24.1 | I don't vote for Maverin Le Pen. |
| 1:26.8 | I vote against Macron. |
| 1:28.3 | It's not representing me, so that's why I'm not voting. |
| 1:31.3 | If Marine Le Pen become president, it will be a shame for me to be French. |
| 1:37.3 | They don't want Marine Le Pen and they don't want Macron. |
| 1:39.3 | So what we do? |
| 1:41.3 | Vise the Republic! |
| 1:43.3 | In the Republic. Long live the Republic. |
| 1:46.5 | Long live France. |
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