00:00I'm going to bring in Ketavan Gurdjistani, our international affairs editor.
00:03Ketavan, the Elyseep Palace, saying Macron will announce a new prime minister in the coming days.
00:07I mean, what's your take on who that could be?
00:10Well, look, as Antonia was saying, Emmanuel Macron's first inclination is likely to want to appoint someone that is close to him,
00:20a Macron confident, probably someone who's been in the cabinet for a long time.
00:25And there are a couple of names in that grouping that have been floated around and that were floated around in the first place before François Bayeroux was named prime minister.
00:35That's the current defense minister, SĂ©bastien Lecornu, or the justice minister, GĂ©rald Darbinin.
00:41But they might be considered too Macron or too right-wing to be acceptable to others in parliament,
00:49especially sort of the left-wing or the socialists that would be needed in order for any new government to not suffer the same fate as the Bayeroux government.
01:01Then there's a second option, which is sort of the middle ground,
01:05trying to get a figure that is more left-wing leaning, but that is not necessarily a member of the Socialist Party.
01:14There could be people like Bernard Cazeneuve, who was a former prime minister, a former member of the Socialist Party, but is no longer that.
01:22There's Éric Lombard, the current finance minister, also a former Socialist Party member.
01:28But that could be sort of the worst of both worlds when it comes to Emmanuel Macron trying to get the support of the parliament.
01:36Those people would be possibly too left for the centre-right and not left enough for the people on the left.
01:43And so that leaves us with the third option, which is an actual cohabitation,
01:49meaning a president that is governing with a prime minister from one of the opposition parties.
01:55In this case, obviously, the likeliest possibility there, because he's ruled out working with the far left or the far right,
02:04would be the Socialist Party.
02:06Antonia was mentioning Olivier Faure, the head of the Socialist Party.
02:10He would be that person, probably.
02:13Only the socialists who agree to that, they're saying that they want to be allowed to sort of implement their agenda,
02:20a more left-wing leaning agenda.
02:23For example, the taxation on the rich or coming back on the raising of the retirement age.
02:29All of those things are things that Emmanuel Macron did not want to see.
02:33So it looks very, very complicated going ahead.
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