28 year old leaderjordan bardella their first realistic chance of running the government and taking control of the national assembly. however, after hundreds of rival candidates from centrist and leftist parties dropped out to give their allies a better chance of defeating the far right, le pen s hopes of winning an absolute majority seem less certain. let s speak to matt fitzpatrick professor in international history at flinders university in adelaide. thank you forjoining us on the programme. for many decades, the far right in france were shunned, they would never get elected in parliament or run for the presidency. what changed in recent years? two thins changed in recent years? two things have changed in recent years? twr things have happened, the first is the far right has gone to a great deal of trouble to soft on their packaging. not necessarily their policies but their packaging so they seem a little bit closer to the centre than they really were. the other thing
hello, and welcome to paris i m christian fraser. quite i m christian fraser. the result tonight. polls have closed after the second and decisive round of france s parliamentary elections and the projected results are in. they point to a left wing coalition the new popular front winning the most seats in the national assembly. it s forecast to win between 172 and 192 seats in total. it s a surprise turnaround from the first round last week, which saw the far right national rally party win the biggest share of the vote. national rally is projected to have between 132 and 152 mps a likely third place behind president macron s centrist alliance, together . it s predicted to win between 150 and 170 seats. if confirmed in the full count, france will have a hung parliament. these were the scenes at place de la republic when the projected results came in. speaking to his supporters, the leader of the french left party, france unbowed, jean luc melenchon, hailed the proj
hello and welcome to paris. the bank is lit up in sparkling, matching the mood of the leftist coalition tonight, a major surprise. with projected results showing the left wing coalition the new popular front winning the most seats in the national assembly. it s forecast to win between 172 and 192 seats in total. it s a surprise turnaround from the first round last week, which saw the far right national rally party win the biggest share of the vote. the rally is projected to have between 132 and 152 mps a likely third place behind president macron s centrist alliance, together. it s predicted to win between 150 and 170 seats. quite large spreads, vote still being confirmed. if confirmed in the full count, france will have a hung parliament. the french prime minister gabriel attal has confirmed he will hand in his resignation to president macron on monday. mr attal said the parliamentary election showed that no majority could be formed by what he called the extremes. take
hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday on fredricka whitfield, and we begin on the campaign trail as he scrambles to try and fend off growing calls to drop out of the race. today. he s making two stops in the battleground, state of pennsylvania. this morning, he spoke at a black church in philadelphia i ve always felt the power of your faith good times. and in tough time fact is the scripture says all things work together for good girls, love god in our called according to his purpose our purpose is to serve others that s our purpose biden s stepped up campaign push comes after his high-stakes interview with abc news did little to calm the nerves of some elected members of his own on party. and any moment now the top democrat in the house, i came, jeffries will hold a meeting with senior democrats to talk about the president s future. and in the senate, democratic senator mark warner, the chair of the intelligence committee, plants to gather senator
capitol hill. and by that i m referring to the so-called justice for j6 rally where hundreds of protesters advocated without irony that the thugs who desecrated our national state house in the world s view should not face their deserved prosecution for attacking police officers or destroying the definition of public property. because they were victims then and now, political prisoners. as always, we have a lot of news to cover tonight, but i need you to know why today s rally disgusted me to no end. in the last decades where we ve marched and protested, just take the last few years when we protested, whether it was around george floyd s murder last year in minneapolis or michael brown s killing by a policeman in ferguson, missouri, and some were out looting and destroying protocol. we denounced it. we never protested that they were prosecuted for looting or destroying property or somehow political prisoners. we said that is not what we re about. if we had imagine if nationa