L’électioncast: 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 nights because it's |
| 0:09.2 | the results of the French presidential election. |
| 0:12.1 | An Emmanuel Macron has beaten Marine Le Pen and the first French president to be re-elected |
| 0:18.1 | since 2002. |
| 0:20.3 | He got about 58% of the vote and she got 42% of the vote, which is a much, much narrower |
| 0:26.8 | margin of victory than when he was first elected back in 2017. |
| 0:31.3 | And here is how our colleagues on French TV broke the news. |
| 0:34.1 | In a third of the four-facts that don't sound as much as 10 seconds before discovering |
| 0:38.2 | the whole thing, who, of Marine Le Pen, or Emmanuel Macron, would have chosen for it. |
| 0:42.6 | Obviously in Macron's camp that was met with jibilation. |
| 0:58.5 | And you can imagine the reaction down the road at Le Pen HQ. |
| 1:14.1 | So we'll discuss what has been going on and what this means for France, for Europe and |
| 1:19.1 | the world, on this special edition of newscast. |
| 1:21.8 | I vote against Macron. |
| 1:31.8 | If Marine Le Pen becomes president, it will be a shame for me to be French. |
| 1:37.1 | They don't want Marine Le Pen and they don't want Macron. |
| 1:40.0 | So what do we do? |
| 1:41.4 | They like me. |
| 1:42.4 | They like me. |
| 1:43.4 | They like me. |
| 1:44.4 | They like me. |
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