country with some good ideas just because of his age. and jim, one can t avoid the context. many people say at least, his allies, that actually the war in ukraine and his leadership, and the stakes were so high, that actually, it did help propel him to this victory. well, i think that s absolutely right. getting the french believe that they like to have the vision of the world vision, and not a lot of other countries have that. the united states may have a world vision, but you don t see the same sort of thing from germany, or italy. l, ench are proud of the fact that they have a world leader for a president. i think that mr. macron has kind of demonstrated that. jim, thank you. just to repeat, president biden, he has congratulated president macron as well.
about our opposition. and we were also able to show that we had connected with the need of the people. and now, we are in the process, as i said, to get together. with other forces, in order to get the majority. and i think that people realize that we need to have a strong, parliamentary branch in a system that is very unbalanced. the system are putting the president as like the presidential monarch. and the french people don t like montague that much. so we went to do that if possible. and we proved it with the screw. and now, it s possible actually to prevent mr. emmanuel macron to actually out power the majority in the national how do you think that would help people? would it be like gridlock, if you have two sanction post visions? or what is his aim if his party does get a big enough victory in the assembly in order for him to be the prime minister? we re well, we aim to actually implement our platform. which was about facing the
france being our oldest ally, a key partner in addressing global challenges and he said he continues to look forward to working with president macron, not just on ukraine, but on supporting the global democracy movement, that he really has made a mission of his presidency there in the united states. so let s talk more about his victory and what it means. joining me in paris is sylvie kaufman. she is predatory had. you ve talked to you before about the stakes. and just to talk to you about the spread of the margin. i think we can call it another french paradox, because this is a very clear, and sound victory. he managed to pull it off. it was difficult, and it was not a done deal at all. 58, 59%, really quite a good margin. i think. and yet, there s no triumphant mood. it s kind of sobering as a victory. so i think he knows that there
macron s first term was really marked by crisis. it was crisis after crisis. we have the yellow vest, we had covid-19. we had the war in ukraine, for everybody which had a big impact here too, because of energy crisis and so on. there was strikes, so you know, it has been difficult as a first term. in the french society, i think is really winded in a way. it s a fragile condition. so, everybody is aware of this. there is anger, there is frustration. and macron s speech last night showed that he was aware of this. he knows. i don t think he is under much illusion about the political crisis, you know, we also have a very fragile political system, which he hoped to save, basically.
pen and facing emmanuel macron in the runoff. when you think he was not able to cobble together a coalition with other members of the left to actually do that? i think we managed pretty well. when you consider that we have the entire system against us. considering that emmanuel macron had been helping the far right actually getting to the second that he said that, he was helping marine le pen. because he knew that facing marine le pen would help him with the winning of the second election. so we nobody expected us to get such a result. and now, that s the third round of the presidential election. we set it, we are managing to get together. we have agreed with the communist party, and we will manage to get this alliance. we are the third block insight, on the political landscape now, and the idea is to get , the prime minister, because the majority of the people don t want emmanuel macron to have