What’s Wrong With France?
The Inquiry
BBC
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Every candidate in the upcoming presidential election in France is calling for change: change to the bureaucracy, the economy and even the culture. France, they say, is broken; society too divided, unemployment too high or the state too oppresive. Are they right? Is this call for change a tired political cliché – or a justifiable response to a deep set of problems? In other words – our question this week – what's wrong with France?
Presenter: Estelle Doyle
(Photo: A dejected France fan after defeat in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa match between France and Mexico. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:30.1 | downloading the inquiry I'm Estelle Doyle and I'm one of the |
| 0:33.4 | regular producers working on the program. I usually work behind the scenes but this |
| 0:38.1 | week I've been allowed into the driving seat. I hope you enjoy the ride. |
| 0:42.6 | Something puzzling is happening in this year's French presidential election. |
| 0:50.6 | All the candidates seem to agree on one thing that the problem with the country is |
| 0:58.0 | The system, it's the system, two-time system. |
| 1:01.0 | Whether they're on the far left, the left, the right or the far right, they all say the same thing. |
| 1:09.0 | A system politic that is new, the principle obstacle obstacle. The system is bringing the is bringing the country down. |
| 1:15.0 | The system is bringing the country down. |
| 1:16.0 | The system will decide |
| 1:18.0 | to result to the place of the election. |
| 1:21.0 | The system is manipulating the elections. |
| 1:27.0 | The system must be resisted. |
| 1:30.0 | It's pretty confusing. |
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