00:00Yes, the pressure is definitely on. It's Sunday afternoon and we still don't have much news about
00:06who is going to be in this new government and when it's going to be formed. It was supposed
00:10to be announced by this evening, but it's now looking increasingly likely that this government
00:15will be formed on Monday and that is keeping it all very tight because Monday is a hard deadline
00:22to get the budget through to the cabinet and to the National Assembly. That's a hard deadline
00:30so that it can be accepted by the end of this year. On Saturday, Sébastien Lecornu said that
00:36he didn't want ministers in power who have presidential ambitions for the elections in
00:422027. It's also likely that it will be a government, a more technocratic government than we're used
00:49to do. One of the big criticisms of the last government that he put in place was that it
00:54was almost a copy-paste of previous governments. It's also going to be a more technocratic government
01:00it's expected because a lot of parties don't want to participate in this new government.
01:06The right-wing Les Républicains party head Bruno Rataillot has said that he will support this
01:12government, but he does not want his party to be a part of it, although some deputies of
01:17Les Républicains have gone against him and have said that they will participate in order
01:21to avoid a dissolution of the National Assembly. For the left-wing Socialists party, their red line
01:28is really the pension reform plan. They said they will not support this government unless that reform
01:35is suspended. But this morning, on Sunday morning, Olivier Farr, the head of the Socialist
01:42Party, said that it is looking increasingly likely that a dissolution of the National Assembly
01:47will take place. That's what the far-right Rassemblement National Party have been calling
01:52for since the beginning. But the moderate opposition and Emmanuel Macron have been incredibly skeptical
01:59of dissolving the National Assembly because it does mean that the far-right will gain a lot
02:06more power, putting Macron in a difficult situation.
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