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Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)

Olly Haynes & Marlon Ettinger

A podcast by journalists Olly Haynes(https://x.com/reality_manager ) and Marlon Ettinger (https://x.com/MarlonEttinger) covering the French legislative elections in 2024, 2025, and beyond.

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00:14:40

We're so back: SocDem edition

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/04

Olly and Marlon discuss the centre's attempts to rebuild, Sophia Chikirou getting in hot water over Hamas and why nazis are calling Olly a collaborator on Twitter. Cover our newspaper expenses. Podcasters actually eat newspapers and rely on them to survive! HELP OUT A STARVING PODCASTER EAT SOME NOURISHING ARTICLES HERE: ⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24⁠⁠ Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting Fund:

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00:06:14

Olympic Pride, Dinners with Michel, and France Goes...

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/03

Marlon takes a solo look at the renewed national pride in France the Olympics are spreading.Plus, Sarah Knafo head to California with the Claremont Institute, and presidential hopeful Laurent Wauquiez spent over 1200 euros in regional funds on a diner with Michel Houellebecq. Cover our newspaper expenses. You know the drill...doom is imminent so we need cold hard cash. Come on buddy. Get on with it. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: ⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24⁠ Want your book, magazine,

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01:05:56

Macron's Theater Days, His Unpublished Novels, and...

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/02

Marlon and Olly interview Charles Devellennes, who's the Senior Lecturer in Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent. Charles tells the about Macron's literary style, the unpublished novels Macron wrote, and the enduring effect Milan Kundera's "Jacques et son maître" had on young Emmanuel. Charles also tells us about the own trajectory his interest in philosophy took him on down the path of political science, which culminated in his 2022 book The Macron Régime:

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00:18:33

A Former Macronist Spills the Beans

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/01

Olly and Marlon discuss sabotage, the possibility (again) of Xavier Bertrand becoming Prime Minister, and an interview with a former Macronist discussing what the president is really like (we've mentioned him once or twice beforeon the show). Marlon's interview with Marc Endeweld. Cover our newspaper expenses. We're washing in the toxic water of the river Seine and need YOU to save us. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or

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00:11:39

Macron's Cold Coup

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/31

The Constitutional Council says that vote rigging in the National Assembly is none of its business. Mediapart reports on a "cold coup" enacted by the Macronists. And Attal shows that the French state would do anything for love... but should they do that? Cover our newspaper expenses. We're eating cat food and need YOU to save us. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24 Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show

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00:05:18

A Neo-Nazi Security Guard and a Prime Minister Who...

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/31

Marlon takes a solo survey of some news as France swelters, groans, and cracks under a heatwave (projection maybe? sure!).There's the neo-nazi security guard on the private island owned by the mega-reactionary media mogul. There's an action packed action pact from the outgoing current resigned who knows Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, and there's even a report that Attal still wants to be President. Cover our newspaper expenses. Currency needed imminently to stave off disaster. [Insert

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00:08:13

A Tale of Two Exorbitant Spending Sprees

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/30

It's the 50th episode of Flap24! Marlon takes us on a solo trek through two reports which came out today about just how much all these politicians are spending. First there's one from Libération about the vice-president of the RN splurging on 4 star hotels to the tune of 400 euros a night during the 2022 campaign, which isn't illegal at all. Then there's a Mediapart report on the recent report by the presidential palace's auditors on the 8 million euro deficit produced by

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00:10:46

Arcane Assembly #1

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/29

As news slows down in the holidays, Marlon takes a solo look at some of the arcana of the National Assembly, from important dates in the upcoming fall session, to a look at how parliamentary immunity works in the French parliament. Marlon also ponders what guerrilla National Assembly warfare could look like. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter

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00:07:17

Foreign Influence and Oppression Olympics

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/27

Marlon takes a solo look at those on Macron's right flank who are decrying wokism in the Olympics.In more interesting news, a quick overview of the French Senate's report on foreign influence, and its plan for a massive public influence campaign on behalf of France's values, including massive narrative crafting to combat France's "enemies." Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email:

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00:11:46

How to Blow Up a Railway Line

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/26

Olly discusses the sabotage at the French Olympics, Macron's attempt to rehabilitate his image, the reactions to the opening ceremony and the plot in the PS. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager

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00:06:17

Dodgy envelopes, Olympic breakfasts, and plans on the...

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/26

Marlon stops in for a brief solo episode and runs down what the NFP's Prime Ministerial candidate is saying about voting with RN, the possible envelope fraud in a recent National Assembly vote, and some meetings of the various parliamentary commissions. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager

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00:11:21

Assembly Commissions, Airwaves and Asahi Olympics

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/24

Marlon & Olly reunite for a duo episode, the first one in awhile, and discuss Olympic news, the latest updates from the National Assembly commissions, and polemics around athletes being allowed to compete in the Olympics under their national flags or not.They also discuss the potential new Prime Minister's podcast, and take a diversion into Japanese politics, believe it or not. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24

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00:05:54

Another NFP Candidate for Macron to Reject

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/23

Marlon looks at the new joint New Popular Front candidate for Prime Minister, Lucie Castets. She's a long time civil servant with a public profile of advocating for public services and close links to the Socialist Party.Everybody in the New Popular Front is publicly in favor of her being the one - but Macron's already saying that he still needs a majority and won't be appointing anybody new until after the Olympics. Don't get too attached! Want your book, magazine, or website

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00:15:41

Which Way French leftist?

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/22

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. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager

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00:07:10

Project Périclès and The National Assembly Bureaus

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/21

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. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter

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00:17:19

Up all night to get lucky

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/20

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. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager Marlon's book, which we have somehow forgotten to plug:

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00:53:31

Bourgeois Bloc Blues w/ Bruno Amable

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/20

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

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00:29:03

17 Deadly Sins

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/19

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. Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Flep24 email: flep24pod@gmail.com Flep24's Twitter @flep24pod Marlon's Twitter @MarlonEttinger Olly's Twitter @reality_manager

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00:22:27

Bello again, Baron Noir? (fixed)

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/17

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

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00:20:23

A pied-noir, a Trotskyist, and an ecologist walk into...

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/07/17

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

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