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Today in Focus

Will France fall to the far right?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Marine Le Pen’s party won a significant victory in the first round of the French parliamentary elections. Can they be stopped? Angelique Chrisafis reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:05.0

Today, the far right are at the gates of power in France.

0:11.0

On Sunday, will they burst through. Businesses across the land, whatever kind of business you're in, BT's got your back.

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0:46.0

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0:48.0

Search BT's got your back. A few weeks ago, the French President Emmanuel Macron took this massive gamble.

1:02.1

For years, support for the far right National Rally Party

1:05.7

has been growing across France and they are pretty extreme. They want to

1:10.9

restrict the jobs available to dual citizens, ban women from wearing religious

1:15.7

headscarves anywhere in public, and make it easier for police to get away with using their

1:21.0

weapons.

1:22.0

In European elections on June 9 they came out the clear winners.

1:26.8

And that night, the night of those results, McCron did something that from the outside

1:32.1

seems completely baffling.

1:34.9

He dissolved the French Parliament, called for national parliamentary elections, and put to the

1:40.4

French people a challenge.

1:43.8

If you really want the far right in power,

1:46.9

well, here's your chance.

1:50.4

I think we're living in a period which historians are going to have to pick over.

1:54.4

Everyone is still asking themselves why they did it because it seems like an act of

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