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[Music] [Music] French president Emanuel macron has refused to accept the resignation of his prime minister after a left-wing Coalition won the country's parliamentary election Dominic waghorn reports from Paris it was accepted amongst most people that the farri party the national rally would not uh repeat the success it made in the first round of the elections and would not achieve the outright majority it's so desperately wanted but I think almost everybody expected it to still be the biggest party in the parliament uh it was outmaneuvered by a blocking maneuver by pretty much all its Rivals across the political Spectrum in France the Republican front as it as it's called and that it's repeated what it's done in the past which is kind of running against uh the national rally and kind of neutralizing its threat but I don't think anybody expected uh the leftwing Coalition uh to lead and macon's Ensemble uh party to come a second so now the dust is settling Sophia I think people are now trying to work out how big a gamble it was how big a failure it was uh by Ma or or did it did it actually vindicate uh what he uh did taking this extraordinary gamble to call these unnecessary snap elections in the wake of the far right success in the European elections there are those who are saying that actually it's not so big a crisis they're saying that Deal's fifth Republic Constitution is designed to kind of absorb these crisis it was based on the premise that the French are a fractus lot uh they are so Riven with squabbling they need a very strong president and the president has extraordinary powers conceivably Emanuel Macon could continue until um he uh leaves office in 20127 uh ruling by decree and using some kind of place person as prime minister pretty much as he has done since he lost his parliamentary majority his party's majority in 2022 um so they would say PL s but I think the majority of analysts are saying no it was a big mistake it was a gamble that has backfired and what it's going to lead to uh is a huge amount of chaos and gridlock and a very difficult situation here politically and I think the big concern amongst those critics of Mao is that because this gamble is backfired and if he does try and ruled by edict those extremists the far right and also the extremists on the left are going to be even more strengthened because their supporters will say look what happens when you vote for your party it's uh the outcome is stitched up by the rest of the establishment they will be furious over the next 2 and a half years watching a president using presidential edict a man they call Jupiter ruling on high overriding and not listening to the will of the people as expressed through these elections and therefore when we come around to presidential elections in 2027 the farri could be even stronger so we'll have to wait and see what happens then I think what we are guaranteed to see now in French politics for weeks months possibly years to come uh is political turmoil as the French President and his Parliament kind of now grapple with what is effectively Uncharted Territory