Sacre Bleu: The French Presidential Election Podcast.

The left has different visions for its future, Macron attempts to call an Olympics truce and there is yet more accusations of antisemitism flung at critics of Israel.

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Marlon takes a solo look at who one some of the new elected positions in the National Assembly.

Marlon also briefly reviews Project Périclès, a 150 million euro plan by an ultrareactionary Catholic billionaire to help the RN win the 2027 presidential and municipal elections.

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Marlon's away so Olly runs you through yet another turning of the tables as the left regains the balance of power within the assembly.

He also talks about Megabasin protests and climate change.

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Marlon's book, which we have somehow forgotten to plug:

https://www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/zemmour-and-gaullism

Olly & Marlon host Bruno Amable, the co-author with Stefano Palombarini of The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis.

Bruno's a political economist and a Professor at the University of Geneva, so this guys knows his stuff.

This is Olly's favorite book, so we really get into it.

Marlon hasn't read it but we have a good discussion about what the bourgeois bloc was, what it is, what alliances it's pursuing, its relationship to racism, and the way it dissimulates - to itself and others.

Bruno's recent publications: https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/dehes/membres/bruno-amable/

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The first vote since the election is held, on who will be the head of the assembly and the Macronists play dirty to win.

The left remains without a PM candidate, and Marlon discusses rumours of a plot in Drancy.

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Marlon is away so Olly takes you through the complex negotiations on the eve of choosing a prime minister. The left still doesn't have a candidate! An intervention by friend of the show Stefano Palombarini puts Marine Tondellier in a tight spot and provokes a revolt in the ranks of the greens.

The PS and the Communists have other ideas.

The left did manage to find a unity candidate for the presidency of the national assembly however, and Olly goes over what he thinks is wrong with an article comparing Olivier Faure to Rickwaert from Baron Noir.

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And she says "ow, that hurts!"

In this episode Olly and Marlon discuss Laurence Tubiana, the PS, PCF, and Green candidate for NFP Prime Minister. They go over why LFI opposes her, her past and present Macron-compatibility, and her eco-anarchist offspring.

Olly goes into one possible centrist scenario for a President of the National Assembly, which will start to be decided on Thursday, and Marlon discusses how some long ago LFI parliamentary strategy may help the left overturn the retirement reform...if they can get a Prime Minister in the door at all.

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The first upload of this episode cut half the recording for some reason, but it should be fixed now.

Olly and Marlon discuss the day's news - this includes another front in the left's forever war, a rift opening up in the centrist camp, purges of the CFDT union of RN supporters and the battle for a spot on publicly funded tv continues.

Song: Prose Elite by Medine

Olly and Marlon recap today's French headlines - most notably the fact that a week has gone an still no PM has emerged.

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Marlon discusses La Réunion president Huguette Bello's unlikely Prime Ministerial shot.

He also goes over some of the objections to Bello in the role, including her positions on gay marriage over the years.

And Marlon touches on who in French politics is condemning what looks like a Trump assassination attempt.

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