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🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in France. |
0:05.6 | And we're not going to talk about the Olympics, the Paris 2024. |
0:10.0 | What we are going to talk about is who the left have proposed as prime minister. |
0:18.4 | And Macron has rejected this person, even even though as you were telling me before |
0:23.9 | we started recording this video this person who they are proposing for the the job of Prime |
0:29.8 | Minister is actually a super duper uber globalist and yet Macron still rejects her what's |
0:36.8 | going on here. |
0:38.5 | It's an absolutely fascinating story. |
0:40.9 | Now, let's just reel back a little and go back to the French parliamentary elections. |
0:46.0 | Because if you remember, what happened in the French parliamentary elections is that the right-wing parties, |
0:51.4 | the Marine Le Pen's party, the Rassonement National, the other right-wing parties |
0:57.4 | that are allied to it, they won a clear, they won a clear victory in terms of the, in terms of being |
1:05.8 | the biggest bloc, the one that was supported by the most people in France. They got around a third of the vote. |
1:12.1 | About the same as Kirstama, in proportionate terms, got in the British general election, |
1:18.6 | where he ended up with this gigantic majority. |
1:22.6 | But the left parties, which got fewer votes than, a significantly few votes than a Le Pen's party did. |
1:35.1 | And the left also got only a quarter of the votes that were cast. |
1:42.2 | Nonetheless, because of the way in which the election was sewn up, |
1:46.7 | the sort of deals that were done between Macron's party and the left. The left came first |
1:53.7 | in number of seats and they are insisting that they have the right therefore to name the prime minister and to form the government. |
2:04.5 | This is despite the fact that of course they are far from being a majority party. |
2:12.1 | They're well, they're one nowhere near enough seats to be a majority by themselves in the French National Assembly. |
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