00:00A moment ago, the government falling, France 24's Clovis Casely is at the National Assembly,
00:06and we're now in an interregnum, Clovis, where we're waiting to know who François Barrou's
00:11successor will be.
00:14Absolutely, and the situation now is very clear. Emmanuel Macron needs to find someone who can
00:21get consensus here at the National Assembly to pass laws, to pass a budget, and I'm joined
00:28here by Nicolas Bonnet. He is an MP for the Green Party, so for the left-wing bloc, for
00:34the Puy-de-Dôme, which is in the center of France. Nicolas Bonnet, are you happy, are
00:40you relieved? François Barrou is out.
00:43Yes, I'm happy that François Barrou is out, that now the National Assembly no longer trusts
00:50him, but I'm also concerned because we have to build something new, a new government with
00:56a new prime minister, and quite fastly, a new budget for next year. So it will be quite
01:04difficult, because we have seen in the past year that it was complicated to make different
01:09parties, different groups in the Assembly to discuss together, to build a compromise. So
01:16I'm, I'm not quite relieved. So what can happen next? For our viewers around the world, what
01:23can happen next? Can it be a government, say, with a socialist prime minister and left-wing
01:28figures, like the Green Party, but without the radical left of France and Barrou? That's
01:33out of the question. Who would that alliance of left-wing parties govern with?
01:37I think we, Emmanuel Macron needs to invest, prime minister from the left-wing, because the
01:45left-wing win the election one year ago. But by winning, I don't mean we have a majority,
01:53but we were the wing with the highest scores. So we were legitimate to govern. But he didn't
02:05make that choice a year ago, and I think now he have to make that choice. Probably it will
02:09be a socialist or maybe an ecologist. I don't know, because we know that the far-wing, the
02:16far-left-wing doesn't want to participate. But I think now we have to nominate a socialist
02:24or ecologist, well, a member of the left-wing for the prime minister post.
02:30We know that the French president has been talking, or his entourage has been talking
02:35with left-wing figures in the past few days. I'm sure you know that also. Has there been
02:42contacts, have there been contacts between the French presidency and also the Green Party
02:48to see what kind of alliance and who would want to go in this government?
02:52As far as I know, there were no contacts between the president and the Green Party. So...
02:59With the socialists?
03:00Maybe with the socialists, but I don't know. I think it was difficult for some dialogue to
03:08be created before François Bayrou was officially out. So I think there will be more contacts now. I hope so, because we have to discuss.
03:18We don't want Emmanuel Macron to nominate someone from his own party like he did before, because we don't think it will work. It will be the same fate for this prime minister as it was right now for François Bayrou. But the exchange will start, I think, right now, the official one.
03:40Nicolas Bonnet, Green Party MP for the Puy de Dôme. Thank you very much.
03:44You're welcome.
03:45And as you've just heard, contacts, negotiations are set to take place in the coming days because it's very simple.
03:53President Macron now needs to find someone who can pass laws, pass the budget here at the National Assembly, because otherwise, the only other solution are snap parliamentary elections.
04:05And that's an option the French president wants to avoid by all means.
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