00:00Caroline, do we have any idea why this has happened?
00:05Well, it's probably because of the situation with the Republicans.
00:08I mean, obviously, the Republican Party reacted pretty badly last night after the nomination of this cabinet.
00:15Even though Bruno Rutaillot kept his job as interior minister, they were disappointed, for example, with the comeback of Bruno Le Maire.
00:23And they were supposed to have a crisis meeting in just a couple of hours from now to decide whether or not they were going to stay in this government.
00:30In fact, we had lots of emails this morning from the French government saying there would be a handover at this time for Le Cornu, for Roland Lescure.
00:39There would be another handover for Bruno Le Maire.
00:42And now everything is collapsing already, three and a half weeks with this prime minister, Sébastien Le Cornu.
00:49And as many analysts have been saying all morning, we are now getting very, very close to perhaps new, fresh legislative elections.
00:59In terms of where Macron's therefore stands, what does he do now?
01:06We've been through a series of governments.
01:08None of them are able to deliver what he needs them to be able to deliver.
01:12Is there another person that he can tap near term to run a government?
01:16What happens next in this process now that Le Cornu has gone?
01:23It's a very tough question right now.
01:26Obviously, he still hasn't tried the centre-left option, which is what Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, has been calling.
01:34And Olivier Faure was just on the radio on France Inter just an hour ago saying that he was not necessarily going to make Le Cornu collapse this week
01:45unless there was a comeback of the debate on the retirement reform in Parliament.
01:51So that's kind of one last option.
01:54But clearly, we could also head towards French, fresh presidential elections.
01:59That's another option.
02:01Of course, something that the National Rally and the far left have been calling.
02:06It's very unclear at this stage what options are remaining for President Macron.
02:10His popularity is at a record low.
02:1216% of positive opinion, I think, was the latest poll last week.
02:19So clearly, within his own camp, it's almost impossible for him to keep any sort of coalition together, even with the centre-right.
02:26So the options appear to be very, very limited.
02:30The only issue, of course, and that's also what political analysts have been telling us this morning,
02:34is that even if there are fresh legislative elections planned over the next few weeks,
02:40they will probably lead to a similar fragmented parliament with possibly the National Rally gaining seats
02:49and becoming the biggest bloc in parliament, but no majority in parliament still.
02:54So the options, again, are very limited for President Macron.
02:59And perhaps this idea of fresh legislative elections and perhaps even a resignation of President Macron
03:04are going to come back on the tables over the next few hours.
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