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Bargaining and backstabbing: How to break France's political deadlock?

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Forty-eight hours after France’s new government collapsed after just 14 hours, caretaker Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is still trying to pull off the impossible and a strike a deal that can get a budget over the line before the end of the year and avoid a further spiralling of public borrowing costs. But for that, you need a compromise.

To Lecornu's left, the Socialists want to go back on the 2023 pension reform; to the right, the conservative Les Republicains say "no way". We review the stumbling points and possible ways President Emmanuel Macron can avoid another snap election that's sure to further shrink his support in France's lower house of parliament, 18 months out from the election to pick his successor.

The front-runner for 2027 is staying far from Paris on the PM's self-imposed deadline day for a compromise. The far-right's Marine Le Pen is instead claiming that all this haggling in the high halls of power smacks of a cabal. And while the left and the moderate right tear themselves apart, her National Rally party's been quietly canvassing constituents, anticipating their next trip to the ballot box.

Produced by François Picard, Théophile Vareille, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.

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Forty-eight hours after France’s new government collapsed after just 14 hours, caretaker Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is still trying to pull off the impossible and a strike a deal that can get a budget over the line before the end of the year and avoid a further spiralling of public borrowing costs. But for that, you need a compromise.

To Lecornu's left, the Socialists want to go back on the 2023 pension reform; to the right, the conservative Les Republicains say "no way". We review the stumbling points and possible ways President Emmanuel Macron can avoid another snap election that's sure to further shrink his support in France's lower house of parliament, 18 months out from the election to pick his successor.

The front-runner for 2027 is staying far from Paris on the PM's self-imposed deadline day for a compromise. The far-right's Marine Le Pen is instead claiming that all this haggling in the high halls of power smacks of a cabal. And while the left and the moderate right tear themselves apart, her National Rally party's been quietly canvassing constituents, anticipating their next trip to the ballot box.

Produced by François Picard, Théophile Vareille, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.

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79 episodes

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