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00:00And now, as we speak, as I'm talking, the whole room has gone silent because the result is just coming in.
00:09Let's cross over to the Speaker of Parliament. Let's take a listen.
00:16Please sit down, she's saying.
00:18According to the Constitution, the Prime Minister must now submit his resignation to the government.
00:38There it is, official. Wasn't even close. And there were, in the end, no surprises.
00:45Clovis Cazelli, 364 votes against, keeping the government, and only 194 in favour.
00:57Yes, indeed. And it's a crushing defeat, of course, for the French, the embattled French Prime Minister, François Bayrou.
01:06And I'm now joined by Jean-Didier Berger, who's a member of Parliament for Les Républicains, the right-wing party.
01:13And he comes from a Paris suburb. He represents a Paris suburb.
01:19Mr. Berger, tell me, what's your feeling? We've just had the result. Very difficult for François Bayrou. He's out.
01:26Yes, it's not a surprise. Personally, I vote for the government because my party and its leader are part of it.
01:33Above all, I don't want the left to take power in our country.
01:37And tell me, do you fear there will be more instability in the coming weeks because now Emmanuel Macron, the French president, needs to find a prime minister?
01:49Yes, we must find a way of working together again because we don't have another solution and we have to make the country moving again.
02:04Then we are putting forward a new political governing pact who will be able to set clear priorities and to make the country moving again.
02:19Again, you are an MP representing Les Républicains, which is the right-wing party, the former party of Nicolas Sankozy, former French president, of course.
02:28Are you willing, for the sake of stability, to support, say, a socialist prime minister? Would that be possible?
02:37I think the right question is not who, but for what purpose and when.
02:43Because we will not find another solution with another election, another legislative election, we will have to wait 20-20-7 until the next presidential election to make everything clear.
03:00Then to find solution to work together, we have to adapt another method.
03:07Thank you very much.
03:08I remind our viewers, you are part of Les Républicains, Jean-Didier Berger, Les Républicains party, the right-wing party.
03:17And it seems that it will be possibly the end of Bruno Retailleau also, who is your leader.
03:22He might be out of the government. He's out of the government now.
03:25It depends. It depends of this governing pact. And we will see.
03:29OK. Thank you very much.
03:30As you can hear, that was one of the first reactions straight after the result of this vote of confidence.
03:39Disappointing, of course, for the supporters of Emmanuel Macron and also Les Républicains, the right-wing party, who were part of this government.
03:49Interesting hearing him saying it depends. It sounds like the horse trading has already begun.
03:54And Klovis Kazari will be checking back in with you again.
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