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French left pushes for PM candidate in meeting with Macron
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8/23/2024
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We begin here in France, where the Paralympics may be starting next week, but the Olympic
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truce is over for French politics.
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Seven weeks after inconclusive snap elections, Emmanuel Macron is receiving delegations from
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major political groups this Friday and Monday.
00:15
He says he expects to name his new prime minister soon afterwards.
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As a reminder, no group won a majority in the snap parliamentary elections, though the
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left-wing New Popular Front did score the most seats.
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They and their prime minister pick, Lucie Castaix, kicked off the meetings this morning.
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Let's hear what she had to say after speaking with President Emmanuel Macron.
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We are satisfied that the president has recognized that voters sent a message in the last elections
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and that their message is a need for a new direction in national politics.
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Our reporter Antonia Kerrigan is following those meetings for us.
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She told us more about what came out of that first meeting between Emmanuel Macron and
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the left-wing NFP.
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Remarkably upbeat, the feedback we've had from this meeting.
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They said that they went here, they came to the Elysee today to remind the president to
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respect the will of the people as expressed in those legislative elections in July.
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Now they said the president was lucid and that he recognizes as well that the French
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people voted for a cohabitation.
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They voted for the prime minister to not be of the same political colors as the president.
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However, they did say you could still sense that temptation on his part to form his own
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government.
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For their part, the left said that they are ready to compromise.
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Lucie Castaix said she will be looking for potential coalitions from today.
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What we've had, of course, is only one side of the story.
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We know the president will be meeting as well with the centrist bloc and the Republicans
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later today.
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It will be very interesting to compare the conclusions we have from those meetings.
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Another source of optimism for the leftist bloc, they said, Marine Tendulier of the Green
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Party said that she was optimistic on the basis that he received the left-wing coalition
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first out of all the different actors and that they were invited to come together and
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bring their candidate.
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So they're extremely optimistic.
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We'll have to wait and see for more.
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