Campaigning kicks off in France for snap election

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00:00A frantic election campaign kicks off in France.

00:04With under two weeks to go until the first round of the parliamentary vote, the Renaissance

00:08party of Emmanuel Macron is warning of the dangers of the far-right and an alliance on

00:13the left.

00:14The Prime Minister openly hit out at former President François Hollande after his shock

00:18announcement that he's running for his old seat in Parliament.

00:22The former president is in the far-left France Unbowed alliance.

00:26This is not the alliance we want to win for the country.

00:29We want to win with the alliance on the far-right, which will be a disaster for the country.

00:34Emmanuel Macron has been eager to paint both extremes of the political spectrum with the

00:39same brush.

00:40It's a strategy his former prime minister, who heads his own party, but is part of the

00:45centrist alliance, is doing.

00:47Edouard Philippe, warning France's economic standing, is at risk.

00:52If France Unbowed wins or the national rally wins, I'm not certain.

00:56I'm not certain this economic attractiveness, this industrial attractiveness, will continue.

01:02And this worries me.

01:04Macron and parties in the centre received a big boost over the weekend after the captain

01:08of France's football team reiterated their message.

01:12Kylian Mbappé is against extremists and division.

01:15While centrist parties warn of the extremes in France, it was the possibility of the far-right

01:20emerging on top in the upcoming snap polls that brought hundreds of thousands of people

01:25in cities across the country over the weekend out in protest.

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