#LondonCalling: France accidentally on purpose advances the Fthe France Unbowed radicals. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
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#LondonCalling: France accidentally on purpose advances the Fthe France Unbowed radicals. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/macron-beat-the-right-but-france-lost-more-le-pen-melenchon-election-b86d4c10
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:05.9 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized |
| 0:10.2 | tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you |
| 0:27.1 | travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Joseph Sternberg, |
| 0:39.6 | member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London. He writes the political economics column. |
| 0:45.0 | And most recently he's written of the French elections. |
| 0:48.0 | Eager to speak of them because we're on the eve of the eve of the eve of the eve of the |
| 0:51.9 | eve of the French Assembly convening to choose a government, |
| 0:56.9 | a leader if possible. |
| 0:59.2 | So a very good evening to when last we spoke of the French election it was after the first round and |
| 1:04.1 | there was all-hailed marine lapen and the national rally and the young man she |
| 1:10.5 | chosen to be her prime minister well ahead in the polling I think it was |
| 1:14.9 | something like 33% and the French coalition of the left groups were trailing |
| 1:20.3 | that and that mano Macron was way down below and so it looked like Marine |
| 1:25.6 | La Penn was on her way to taking control of the Assembly anticipating her run |
| 1:31.7 | for the presidency in two years time. That's the way it was |
| 1:34.8 | supposed to be and yet the results it comes out a complete reversal of |
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