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PODCAST

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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00:10:17

It Would Feel So Empty Without Me(lenchonistes)

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/24

Melenchon makes a surprising offer to the Macronists - why did he do this? The ranks of La France Insoumise continue to grow, and without the dissidents, the party remains more convinced than ever of its strategic orientation. Meanwhile the Greens have their congress with new arrivals in their ranks. Olly's recent Jacobin article on the state of France: https://jacobin.com/2024/08/macron-journalism-fixing-france-reivew Send us questions for our Friday interviews at

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00:13:00

Is This A Coup?

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/23

Macron meets the representatives of the NFP... and refuses to name a Prime Minister. Attal says the centrist bloc will censure any government with LFI in it. Mélenchon calls Macron an autocrat and Roussel calls his actions a coup. Show Notes - Our episode with Charles Devellenes on Macron's thirst for power - Olly's Jacobin article - Mediapart's rundown of the day Send us questions for our Friday interviews at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Johnny, how about

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00:06:50

The PS Wants To Govern With Macron

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/22

In dribs and drabs the Socialist Party is signalling - sometimes openly - that they want to break with LFI and govern with Macron. Will they take the plunge?Over in the presidential camp, Élisabeth Borne announces that she's running to lead Macron's party, Renaissance. But there are whispers that Gabriel Attal wants the post as well. A bloc is forming to block his ambitions. And Renaissance deputies are trying to strip LFI Eurodeputy Rima Hassan of her parliamentary immunity after

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00:06:50

A Socialist Party and a Constitutional Coup

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/21

There's discontent in the Socialist Party over the alliance with La France Insoumise. Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Hélène Geoffroy want out again.Éric Ciotti's party is defining its political course in the National Assembly - trotting faithfully along behind the National Rally, the most powerful force on the right. And Gabriel Attal sent letters to his ministers laying out the cap on their budgets for 2025 - for many a political move, given the fact that Attal's government lost an

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00:09:12

Glucksmann and Cazenueve to the Government

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/20

LFI is on guard against reports that the Socialist Party won't oppose Bernard Cazeneuve as Macron's Prime Minister pick.Raphaël Glucksmann is out with a long interview in Le Point where he talks about turning the page on Macron and Mélenchon, rebuilding French social democracy, and his presidential ambitions. And the National Rally is preparing for another election in a year's time, resigned to what they say is inevitable paralysis whoever gets picked for PM anyway. Show Notes - La

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00:05:50

Bayrou Says No To The NFP

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/19

François Bayrou talked with Le Figaro yesterday and called for...a government that avoids the extremes. He also excluded Lucie Castets from becoming Prime Minster, the NFP candidate for the position, saying she has no experience. We also take a look at a Senate Bill which would require a President under the Constitution to name a Prime Minister within 8 days of an election...it's been about 7 weeks now. Show Notes - François Bayrou : «Il est urgent de sortir du jeu des partis politiques qui

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00:07:07

The NFP Outside of LFI Says No To Impeachment

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/19

The Socialist Party and the Greens reject the LFI's impeachment puch as the way forward against Macron. The Socialist Party says a vote of no confidence is the way to go if and when Macron names a Prime Minister outside of the New Popular Front's candidate, Lucie Castets. And a brief note on Alain Delon's death, the new moment for secular sainthood and a possibility for Macron to continue avoiding politics. Show Notes - Gérald Darmanin Tweet - Olivier Faure Tweet - Jean-Marie Le Pen

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00:07:33

Mélenchon Wants to Impeach Macron

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/18

Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the LFI want to impeach Macron under Article 68 of the French constitution. They say that's he's derelict in his duties to be a neutral arbiter by refusing to accept the democratic verdict of the recent legislative elections. Impeaching Macron would be difficult to get through both chambers of France's parliament, but Mélenchon's party has enough deputies to get the ball rolling with a resolution in the National Assembly. Show Notes - ⁠« Démettre le

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00:07:20

Macron Picks a Prime Minister

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/17

The title is clickbait - sorry! Marlon takes a solo look at an announcement by Macron to host all the country's political forces on the 23rd of August to determine who the next prime minister will be. The news sets off the typical paper-selling speculation about who the next Prime Minister might be (mostly familiar names, though one wacky hypothesis). And Marlon goes over a minor Trotskyist sect and why the National Rally wants to kick it out of a beautiful beach side summer blitz. Show

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00:05:52

RN Cleans House & NFP Divides

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/16

Marlon takes a solo look at a report from Le Point into how the National Rally is laying the blame for their election results on bad candidate choices. The solution? Get rid of the people who chose the candidates.The NFP's prime minister choice Lucie Castets looks like she's backing away cautiously from a commitment to immediately implement the program as she searches for a coaltion. And Place Publique inches boldly towards a governmental coalition - away from the NFP's program

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00:05:21

Impasse!

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/15

Marlon takes a solo look at the boring impasse French politics finds itself in as Macron continues to refuse to name a government. A veritable democratic scandal, which LFI President of the National Assembly's finance commissions calls an attempt by Emmanuel to essential cohabit in government with...himself.Show Notes - Un nouveau Premier ministre nommé fin août ou «début septembre», prédit le chef des sénateurs macronistes - La gauche s'exaspère : « Emmanuel Macron veut une cohabitation

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00:05:51

Attal's Grand Coalition on the Horizons

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/14

Gabriel Attal calls for a grand coalition (excluding LFI and RN).Horizons call for a grand coalition (excluding LFI and RN). Vague policy proposals, of course, from a sweltering France. Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. They all just keep bursting into flames so we need new ones: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch! Fighting

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00:05:17

The Country's Heating Up

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/13

It's hot hot hot in France, and the post-Olympic truce is over. Plus, Macron's spokespeople use the language of Maurras again (not French). Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. They all just keep bursting into flames so we need new ones: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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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00:06:37

Power Lifting

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/11

Marlon runs through a quick solo episode on the fear of another RN surge, the goings on at the gym in the national assembly, the struggles of the poor lobbyists and the left in Paris. Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Our we will bring crime back to the darkened streets of Paris. Out of necessity: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in

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00:13:04

How to Lobby the Left

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/10

Olly talks about two stories, one in which the media tries to signal the return of Anne Hidalgo and one in which lobbyists lament the presence of La France Insoumise, who are unlobbyable! Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Our we will bring crime back to the darkened streets of Paris. Out of necessity: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in

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00:09:36

Is France on the Right or the Left? Plus Paris gets...

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/09

Marlon takes a solo look at a new interview with Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who's on the left of the Macron grouping. She says there needs to be a coalition government which excludes LFI and RN, and that France is not a right wing country.Plus, did Paris get rid of crime during the Olympic games? Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Our we will bring crime back to the darkened streets of Paris. Out of necessity:

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00:26:43

Antifa, Austerity and Aubrey's resignation

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/08

Olly and Marlon discuss Olly's meeting with Raphael Arnault, the looming austerity budget, the resignation of Lille's mayor and her history on the left of the PS as well as the possible failure of the flagship Olympic clean water measures. Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com Cover our newspaper expenses. Podcasters actually eat newspapers and rely on them to survive! HELP OUT A STARVING PODCASTER EAT SOME NOURISHING ARTICLES HERE:

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00:06:58

The Xavier Bertrand Hypothesis

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/08

Xavier Bertrand's name keeps coming up as Macron's next choice for Prime Minister. We've talked about him before on this podcast, so Marlon goes through some of it in this solo episode.Also - what to do with phone numbers? I want your answers and feedback on this. Cover our newspaper expenses. The balance of power in the Rigulon-7 galacto-space zone depends on it. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: ⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24⁠⁠⁠ Want your book, magazine, or website

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00:06:41

Summer Conferences, Nice, and Popular Committee

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/07

Marlon takes a solo sin through the tension in Nice, as the opening salvo in a battle for the country and the French right charges up between Christian Estrosi and Éric Ciotti.A rundown on the summer conferences. And LFI continues with its investigation into just how much the Olympic Games costs. Cover our newspaper expenses. Something bad might happen generally to the balance of nature if you don't. [Insert second breathless CTA here]: ⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24⁠⁠ Want your book,

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00:10:33

A Limbo Government of Non-Ministers

Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024) ·

2024/08/05

Olly discusses some articles on the strange stasis French politics has entered into in which Macron is still governing as he always has, but no one really knows if this is actually a legitimate thing to be doing. Email us your Qs so we can give you As at flep24pod@gmail.com 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

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