and again, the turf he is comfortable on is foreign policy, that great statesman role. but he won t be able to get away from the problems that are facing every world leader at the moment. again, for him going forward, he has pledged to try to bring the country together, as many politicians do, but there is no clear path into how he will bring the country together. what role might there be for the third place finisher? the role of the prime minister, with that big climate change remit how tempted would macron be to put him in that post? he cannot put him in that post, it is the french electorate who have to decide, and jean luc melenchon almost beat le pen. it would have been a much more interesting election. what was possible but not probable is that he has the majority or that macron, and then becomes prime minister, and then you have a completely. one on the right and the other on the left. it would be for france
cap, inflation is much lower than here, there is more protection for workers. during the campaign, he said, we will have retirement above 65 instead of 60. now he can forget that. the problem as well, as you mentioned, we stopped thinking about afghanistan, because everybody threw themselves into ukraine, and that s what emmanuel macron did. the first round of the presidential elections, he was barely visible, wasn t he? and again, the turf he is comfortable on is foreign policy, that great statesman role. but he won t be able to get away from the problems that are facing every world leader at the moment. again, for him going forward, he has pledged to try to bring the country together, as many politicians do, but there is no clear path into how he will bring the country together. what role might there be for the third place finisher? the role of the prime minister, with that big climate change remit how tempted would macron be to put him in that post? he cannot put him in that post,
it is the french electorate who have to decide, and jean luc melenchon almost beat le pen. it would have been a much more interesting election. what was possible but not probable is that he has the majority or that macron, and then becomes prime minister, and then you have a completely. one on the right and the other on the left. it would be for france a very bad time. but the polls show at the moment that macron will have the majority, because generally people vote the same way for the presidency as the parliamentary election, but surprises can happen. indeed, they certainly can. let s carry on talking about different elections. because as simon said,
for the third place finisher? the role of the prime minister, with that big climate change remit how tempted would macron be to put him in that post? he cannot put him in that post, it is the french electorate who have to decide, and jean luc melenchon almost beat le pen. it would have been a much more interesting election. what was possible but not probable is that he has the majority or that macron, and then becomes prime minister, and then you have a completely. one on the right and the other on the left. it would be for france a very bad time. but the polls show at the moment
his far right opponent marine le pen will hit the campaign trail in northern france. friday is the last day of campaigning before voters head to the polls. the contest is a rematch of a presidential runoff in 2017 when mr. macron easily beat le pen. but this time around polls suggest a much close erase, even though the president still holds a small lead. mr. macron and le pen are going into the runoff after winning the top two spots of course in the first round of voting. but a candidate who ended up third in that round is now emerging as a potential kingmaker in the presidential contest. cnn s jim bittermann explains. reporter: he didn t win, but he didn t exactly lose here. jean-luc mellenchon came in third. the french system not good enough to make the runoff round for the presidency, but he did