Hello and welcome to the program this is News Hour from the BBC World Service

we're live from London my name's Paul Henley as the second and final round of French elections approaches, President Macron's

centrist camp and a left-wing alliance are scrambling to stop the far right taking power. A deadline has now passed for candidates in seats when they're not

the main challenger to the national rally led by Maureen Le Penh to pull out of the race.

As Le Penh said the French people would not be denied the government they wanted.

In an interview with radio station, France Antaire, she accused President Macron of doing

all he could to prevent national rally forming the next administration.

When I read about rumors that the president plans tomorrow, meaning four days before the second round,

to say that the Director General of the National Police has to stay in position

until the end of the Olympic Games and the Director of the National Jean-Darmoree, as well as dozens of the to govern the country as he wishes. I say that's a form of administrative

coup d'etat. The president's gamble of calling a snap election appears to

have backfired after the far right party of

Marin le Pen built on momentum from European elections and won the first round of

a parliamentary vote on Sunday. But faced with the prospect of the extreme right-taking power in France for the first time, since occupation in the Second World War,

the other parties have begun cooperating, at least up to a point.

Let's speak to one candidate who followed the

order to stand down. Noe Goshar was a candidate for the radical left France

unbound party in Normandy in the north of France. He finished third in the first round

behind the candidate of the far-right national rally who got the most votes and behind President

Macron's former Prime Minister Elizabeth Bonn, who saw the controversial pension reform

through Parliament.

And Noe Goshar joins us, was it a difficult decision to stand down?

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