00:00And left-wing party leaders meeting in downtown Paris. Our reporter Clovis Casali covering the talks and we can speak to him now
00:07Hello to you Clovis. As we heard in that report the previous alliance
00:11imploded last year. How tight is this new alliance?
00:18Well, all the members of this alliance tell us this is much bigger much greater than them
00:24Therefore
00:25To in order to stand a chance in the legislative election. They need to stand united
00:30And this is why they came up with a common manifesto
00:33to implement a clear break from Macron's
00:37Policies in the first 100 days of the left wing in power
00:42They have several measures notably
00:46increasing the minimum salary
00:48Increasing wages to balance out inflation as well as put an end to the pensions
00:53Reform as I was coming here. I met with Yannick Jadot who is the candidate in the presidential election for the Green Party?
01:00He was telling me that in the past the left-wing has at times been
01:04Disconnected with the reality of the French people especially those struggling at the most and here with this common manifesto
01:12They they're changing that they're bringing real solutions with those measures. I just mentioned that will
01:18be balanced by
01:20Some spending cuts in the government spending, of course
01:25So we're expecting a press conference here in the next hour
01:29also with all of the left party leaders who will be outlining the vision giving a bit more detail as to how
01:37United the front is is and especially what they
01:41Want to carry out in the coming weeks with the first round of the legislative elections looming
01:49It's only on June 30th
01:50So all the left-wing parties and candidates really need to get together and start campaigning as quickly as possible
01:58Time is crucial. Yeah, indeed only about a little more than two weeks of campaigning for that first round Clovis
02:04Um, what hopes are there for this so-called popular front?
02:10Why it's the question when you look at polls
02:12Experts all saying that the National Rally the Hassan Blumenthal of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella are
02:19clear favorites and
02:21Also with some right-wing figures
02:24Joining them now. The question is how united will this a left-wing front be and especially they've decided who will be standing in
02:32the
02:34577 constituencies across France the left-wing, of course this new popular front
02:39Presenting having one candidate one only candidates single candidate in each constituency in order to
02:46Maximize chances of winning but are they're putting the best candidates in these constituencies in order to win
02:53Also an important point and now it's getting a bit technical
02:56But it's very interesting because remember the European ballot
02:59It was a one-round election this legislative election is two rounds
03:04Therefore in the second round you can have alliances
03:07Will there be the Republican front as we know it when candidates from mainstream parties got together to prevent?
03:14Victories from the far right will this happen this time will right-wing politicians back left-wing politicians
03:20Against the National Rally or left-wing politicians back right-wing against the National Rally
03:25That's the question and we'll have to wait and see of course for that
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