penning newspaper columns and presenting the podcast rock and roll politics. maria margaronis is a journalist, who s written and presented a number of radio documentaries on the crises man made and natural which have afflicted greece. ashis ray has half a century of explaining events here to his readers in india. a fulltime occupation in itself, you might think, but he s still found time to commentate on his beloved cricket. lovely to have you all new the studio. all together as well. so thank you for being with us. borisjohnson street, according to a ukrainian mp, could soon be found on maps for odesa, as it expunges the memorialisation of famous russians. assuming the british prime minister s visit to india this week is followed in due course by a free trade deal something neither the european union nor the united states has pulled off there ll probably be a thoroughfare named in his honour in mumbai, too. in this country, borisjohnson way might be a cul de sac. such is
Because the collapse of the so called orthodox parties in france and the rise of macron almost as sort of a personalised party has kind of completely fractured the party system and yet, although it is a presidential election that we are witnessing now, you do have to have party bases. you know, macron busted through that, but with these consequences that the parties are so weakened, there could be space for a le pen figure to surface at some point, so i think it is rather worrying that those older parties have just kind of collapsed because what replaces them? yes, the party may be over for some but the consequences live on for everybody else. thank you all very much. thank you for your company. martine croxall will be be in this chair next week. i ll see you in a fortnight s time. from all of dateline, goodbye.
And yet, although it is a presidential election that we are witnessing now, you do have to have party bases. macron busted through that, but with these consequences, that the parties are so weakened there could be space for a le pen figure to surface at some point, so i think it is worrying that those older parties have just kind of collapsed, because what replaced them? the party may be over for some, but the consequences live on for everybody else. thank you all very much. thank you for your company, martine croxall will be be in this chair next week. i will see you in a fortnight. from all of dateline, goodbye.
We, you know, it is kind of the nature of our beast, we review the week, but we look ahead, and not withstanding the result on sunday night, it is a question of what happens next time round. there will be no macron because he can t run for a third successive term. will that party have a candidate, will there be a return to the left and right? marine le pen could be a a candidate in five years time. absolutely. she has been around forever and will continue to remain forever a candidate, but this is the other thing, because the collapse of the so called orthodox parties in france and the rise of macron almost as sort of a personalised party, has kind of completely fractured the party system, and yet, although it is a presidential election that we are witnessing now, you do have to have party bases. macron busted through that, but with these consequences, that the parties are so weakened there could be space for a le pen
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