01:36Right, because while the prime minister has changed quite often, the political landscape in general has stayed basically the same.
01:42So what is the likelihood that Lecornu is the man who can break the cycle?
01:47Especially because he's just like François Bayrou, just like the predecessor Michel Barnier, from the right or the centre-right.
01:55So he will be governing towards the right wing.
01:58He's got the centrist bloc and his traditional allies.
02:02He's actually meeting them, he met them this morning, and this afternoon he's meeting with a key player here, the Socialist Party.
02:10Not a huge number of MPs at Parliament, but that number of MPs can help the centrist bloc of President Macron with its allies on the right.
02:20Well, the Socialists can help them get that majority of votes to pass laws, to pass the much-needed budget.
02:29Can he really count on the Socialists and the rest of the left?
02:32Very difficult to say, because the Socialists and the Green Party are insulted by the fact that they weren't chosen for the job as prime minister.
02:40They said, you tried with right-wing figures and centrist figures in the past, it didn't work.
02:46Why didn't you pick us?
02:47National rally, French far-right party, they say, we just want snap elections.
02:52We want early elections because Emmanuel Macron is no longer legitimate.
02:57Let's take a listen to the Socialist leader of his party's parliamentary group.
03:03He's called Boris Vallaud.
03:05And this morning on French television, he made it very clear.
03:08He kind of set the red line.
03:10He said, these are the measures we absolutely want the government to undertake.
03:15Take a listen.
03:16The Socialist Party's proposals are on the table and they're serious.
03:22They're coherent and based on simple principles.
03:25They're for the French people who have only their wages to live on and who struggle to make ends meet and don't always earn enough for what they do.
03:33We should spare those people from cuts.
03:34There should be no cuts made on the back of the sick, no cuts made on the unemployed, no cuts made on those who feel the state always takes from their pockets.
03:44The people are sick of making sacrifices and seeing no better future.
03:48So here we have a new opportunity to start a dialogue, start talks.
03:52What are the measures that are going to be key when it comes to these negotiations between the prime minister and all these other parties?
03:59First, you need to know France has got crippling debt, like a lot of countries, except that France is only just paying back the interest on that debt and not really trying to reduce the debt itself.
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