00:00Some have said there's an immaturity amongst the political parties, that they're not, you know, being serious and sort of taking in the weight of the situation.
00:09Do you think that's the case? Could they be making more compromises here?
00:14So there is there is ambition, of course, and you're like two years from an extremely important election.
00:19And we live in a country in France and the French political history is such that the de Gaulle, the founding father of this republic, sought to give this country a strong presidential power because what we had before was a strong parliament.
00:36And it didn't work out so well because it was toppled.
00:39And what we said a little earlier, we had like something like around 12 governments in just one republic or around 20 governments.
00:47So because in our history, we had a lot of parliamentary instability, there was no trust when this republic was founded in 1958 that parliament was going to do better.
01:00So we said, OK, we're going to give real power to the president.
01:03And why did the first our first president, Jean-Alain de Gaulle, in 62 decided the president would have the power of being the honor of being elected directly by the people?
01:14Well, it is because he's supposed to have the utmost legitimacy.
01:18He was supposed he is supposed to be, which is not less the case since the five year we went from seven years to five years of of the political mandate.
01:27He's supposed to be sort of the referee of our political, political, political game, general game that we have, political system.
01:36So there is this ambition, but there's also something that is related probably to values.
01:42If you are from the left and you see a government from the right that is elected and they are not in line with basic values that your electorate agrees with, it's very hard for you to commit.
01:56Same for the right. If you see in government people who are like for for ending the pensions reform and for you, it is important because you know that this country needs actual reform to face its debt.
02:12Then you can't support that government because you can't explain it, explain that to your electorate.
02:17But also you can't yourself, if you've been a politician for some time, you believe in what you've been doing.
02:23You can't morally do that because it's not in line with what you do.
02:27So that's the that's the trap of partisanship in French politics.
02:31You get it at a point where you don't have a figure that is capable of saying we need to do what's best for the country, even if you have, you know, partisan ideals and partisan ideology.
02:43And it brings sort of a stop, like a break in the way this country is governed.
02:50And we are living a really serious crisis in this country.
02:54This is more than just a few people who don't agree.
02:57But I don't think the solution is coalitions, because here again, I'm being very lucid and pragmatic.
03:04This country does not have a coalition tradition.
03:07We're very different from other European countries.
03:10However, I believe the solution is going back to the will of the people, having elections and making sure there is a majority.
03:16And once we have a majority, then things can be solved.
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