The Intelligence: Emmanuel override
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The Economist
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Attal, France’s youthful new prime minister, represents President Emmanuel Macron’s renewed push to pass policy reforms and to counter a resurgent far-right. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a landslide re-election of President Félix Tshisekedi has raised eyebrows—and tempers (7:41). And a look at how “The Wicker Man” may be the force behind a rise in paganism (15:30).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:04.0 | The Economist. I'm your host |
| 0:13.9 | Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:18.5 | shaping your world. |
| 0:21.6 | In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it looks a lot like 2018. |
| 0:28.8 | Felix Chisicady again won the presidency with a thumping majority, but the opposition says the vote The offering people. And the film The Wickerman once seemed like a cautionary tale about the perils of observing ancient superstitions. |
| 0:50.0 | Today as the number of self-identified pagans is sharply rising, the film looks like an advertisement for them. |
| 1:00.0 | First up, though. |
| 1:07.0 | Francis President Emmanuel Macron has had a pretty turbulent second term in office. |
| 1:16.0 | His relentless push for reforms to the pension system hasn't been received very well, |
| 1:21.0 | ditto immigration laws. He leads a minority government. |
| 1:28.0 | His popularity rating has been sliding, |
| 1:31.0 | and he faces a growing challenge in the form of a resurgent |
| 1:34.3 | far right the national rally and its newish president jodin bardala 4, 4 4, 4, 4, 4 Jordan, |
| 1:42.8 | and Bade la. |
| 1:43.4 | And was the President. |
| 1:45.0 | All of this suggests a need for a fresh start, |
| 1:49.8 | which in French politics often means giving the boot to the Prime Minister, the chief policy |
| 1:54.9 | implementer and runner of government. |
| 1:57.8 | Yesterday that fresh start got started. |
| 2:00.8 | My name is a macaron the French president has switched Prime Minister, as French presidents have |
| 2:06.1 | the constitutional right to do. |
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