'Socialist party leader Olivier Faure was invited to the Élysée palace on Friday morning'

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00:00A quick debrief and a vape after a high-stakes meeting with the French president.

00:05Socialist party leader Olivier Farr was invited to the Elysée Palace on Friday morning after

00:10saying he was open to discussion with Emmanuel Macron and the right as long as concessions

00:14were made on both sides.

00:16The president has not set any preconditions on any subject.

00:21We reminded him that in order to guarantee change, we wanted a left-wing prime minister

00:28and that we would under no circumstances participate in a government led by a right-wing prime

00:33minister.

00:36The socialists were the only members of the left-wing New Popular Front alliance to be

00:39received on Friday after lawmakers from the left and the far-right voted to oust Prime

00:44Minister Michel Barnier.

00:46It angered France Unbound leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon who said on social media his party

00:50had given no mandate to Olivier Farr to go to the meeting alone or negotiate an agreement

00:55in the name of the New Popular Front.

00:58We see Friday's meeting as a sign that the socialist party could be breaking away from

01:01the alliance to put an end to the standstill and join a more centrist government within

01:06what Macron calls a republican arc.

01:09The prime minister will form a government of public interest, representing every political

01:13force within the spectrum of parties that they can take part in or at least agree not

01:18to bring down.

01:19Macron is also consulting with officials from the right in the hope he can name a prime

01:22minister who can run the country at least for the next few months.

01:26A delicate task.

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