All right, Alexander, let's do an update on what is happening in France.

It looks like Macron is putting together a new government, a new prime minister and cabinet,

and he is trying to work with the left, some parties on the left,

in order to prevent what happened to Barnier from

happening again. Most notably is he is excluding Le Pen and National Rally from any talks

about the new government that he's putting together. What do you think is happening in France?

What does Macron have to?

If you have been following our programs on the Duran,

the first day when this election, the parliamentary elections happened,

we always said that Macron's ultimate plan is to split the left.

I mean, the national rally, Marine Le Pen's

group, is a solid, disciplined group. It's the right. It's not the far right. It is simply

the right in France. It won the most votes in the election. By any logic, it ought to be the government now. But of course,

as we all remember, there was this extraordinary manipulation during the election whereby left

weak candidates stood down in seats where the centrist candidate loyal to Macron was ahead,

and Macron's candidates stood down where the left

was ahead, all to exclude the national rally. So it was pushed, the national rally saw his vote.

Its parliamentary totals pushed down, the left and the Macronists were pushed up. And we said that having achieved that, having blocked Le Pen

from holding a majority in the French parliament and forming government,

Macron's game would be to try to split the left,

to isolate Melanchang, who is the left's nominal leader,

and to win the left centrist, the socialists, and people like that,

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