that le pen faces a second runner. the first time, with her father jean-marie qualified and barely increased the advance. he got about 17% of the vote in the second round, everybody rallied around jacques shumac. and in the second round she got 34% in the end. a lot more than her fatherearli. the polls show her at 48.5%. so with the last-minute pull as such, and polling she could have a chance of winning. i can with macron, perhaps at 48 something like that but we can thought exclude the possibility of her winning either. a le pen victory would be destabilizing for europe. she may pull france out of the
going to the national public broadcaster, it was going to other places. that was widely seen as an attack on the independence of the broadcaster, actually, by making it more reliant on tax money, which can be easily cut, and less able to guarantee its funding and to carry out independent journalism. so, you know, macron may be doing this as a vote winner, but actually, whenever politicians say we need to replace the licence fee with something else, we need to be very wary about what their intentions actually are. chris curtis from broadcast, if i bring you back in, i saw that broadcast was reporting this afternoon that one of the big french tv bosses has claimed that a le pen victory would mean french state tv assets being sold to a billionaire. yeah. i mean, dominic summed it up quite well there is a period of reckoning coming for public service broadcasters around the world, and it s going to be challenging, but i suspect that one of the things that those organisations need to do i
by making it more reliant on tax money, which can be easily cut, and less able to guarantee its funding and to carry out independent journalism. so, you know, macron may be doing this as a vote winner, but actually, whenever politicians say we need to replace the licence fee with something else, we need to be very wary about what their intentions actually are. chris curtis from broadcast, if i bring you back in, i saw that broadcast was reporting this afternoon that one of the big french tv bosses has claimed that a le pen victory would mean french state tv assets being sold to a billionaire. yeah. i mean, dominic summed it up quite well there is a period of reckoning coming for public service broadcasters around the world, and it s going to be challenging, but i suspect that one of the things that those organisations need to do is kind of grasp the nettle and start to have proper, progressive conversations about alternatives. the bbc traditionally has been very defensive, and unders
or will emmanuel macron see off her challenge? a le pen victory would have profound effects on europe as a whole. i asked nick beake, the bbc s europe correspondent, who s been covering the first round and is now back in brussels, for his views. we saw the brexit vote, then we saw the election of donald trump, and people are wondering whether the french are going to do something very similar, something that upsets everything that s come before. and that s because a le pen presidency wouldn t just change the face of france, in some ways, bringing in her own domestic policies, but it would change france s place, notjust in the european union, but among the international community. and although she s softened some aspects of her appeal to the french people for example, she no longer says that france should come out of the single currency, the euro
this as a vote winner, but actually, whenever politicians say we need to replace the licence fee with something else, we need to be very wary about what their intentions actually are. chris curtis from broadcast, if i bring you back in, i saw that broadcast was reporting this afternoon that one of the big french tv bosses has claimed that a le pen victory would mean french state tv assets being sold to a billionaire. yeah. i mean, dominic summed it up quite well there is a period of reckoning coming for public service broadcasters around the world, and it s going to be challenging, but i suspect that one of the things that those organisations need to do is kind of grasp the nettle and start to have proper, progressive conversations about alternatives. the bbc traditionally has been very defensive, and understandably so, about the licence fee and independence from government is absolutely crucial to its future. but if it becomes so wedded to the licence fee that it isn t prepared to e