07/05/2017 The Papers

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Fix. Hello and welcome to our look at

what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow, a lot of one particular

story, Tim Stanley, columnist at the Daily Telegraph, joins me with

Benedicte Paviot, UK correspondent at France 24. The Financial Times

headlines Emmanuel Macron's win in the French presidential election

saying his win is a phenomenal achievement. The Metro calls him big

Mac after he took over 65% of the vote in the second round. The

Guardian says Mr Macron must now reunite it if fans after the far

right Marine Le Pen received over 11 million votes. The Times receives

that Emmanuel Macron received a landslide victory as fans elect its

youngest leaders and is Napoleon. The Telegraph warns that the

election of the Europhile could have an effect on Brexit negotiations

with the European Union. And the Daily Mail leads with an exclusive

in which it says that loyalty with an insurer can cost families an

extra ?1000 a year. Interesting that some papers don't even mention the

French presidential election. They won't feature much in this review.

Maybe at past 11 we will look at broccoli on the front page of the

Daily Express but we can't promise. Emmanuel Macron wins the presidency,

yet the country remains divided. He was very much aware of that when he

appeared on TV shortly after it became that he had won, Benedicte. ,

Yes, this 39-year-old who resigned from the government only last summer

and set up a movement, it is still a movement, not a party, with no

official subsidies from the French authorities, En Marche, and he has

astonishingly confounded all the predictions of the experts and

tonight he is president elect of France. A certain Emmanuel Macron.

He has reason to be solemn. The country is in a state of emergency

still. There's a lot of major terrorist threats, as we know.

French and policeman -- a French prison killed and another seriously

injured on the Champs-Elysees, stagnant economy, huge unemployment,

10%, that was the very pledge that the then candidate Francois Hollande

said he should be judged on. And there is a lot to do. I thought it

was interesting that Mr Macron talked about serving France and

talked about the monumental task, la tache colossale that he has in front

of him. It was a fractured campaign, we knew that since the first round,

whistle that tonight. Marine Le Pen has lost resoundingly, Mr Macron has

won comfortably, easily, but the fact is that what Marine Le Pen has

achieved is in itself extraordinary. So Mr Macron has a lot to do. He is

an independent, he says he's not from the left of right and he has

the small matter of parliamentary elections in June and he needs to

rally support behind him if he is to push through any or all of the

reforms that he wants to do and unite France. There is no point in

trying to compete on the French pronunciation front with this woman,

Tim! Alaves I will speak in pidgin English! So you have this man who

has won by 65% to 35%. Yet he positioned himself as not being of

the establishment. For a lot of people, of course he is. This is one

in a long line of remarkable elections that have changed politics

across the world. Brexit, Trump and now Macron. The old parties seem to

be unable to come up with solutions to France's myriad problems, a

socialist was brought down by a corruption scandal, a communist did

well in the first round and it came down to two people from outside

mainstream politics, one independent and one rationalist. So the very

fact that it was him this is her shows the scale of change -- one

independent this is one rationalist. He has won that many people will say

that he won because of who he was opposing. And I agree that although

she lost the increase in the vote, National Front since when her father

run is substantial. And for all the controversy around her to do one

third of the vote is remarkable. On top of that roughly one third of

eligible voters chose not to vote. An extraordinary figure of 4.2

million people chose to spoil their ballot. So on the one hand, I'm

saying that Emmanuel Macron yes, he has pulled off an extraordinary coup

and reshaped French politics. On the other hand he is where he is because

of a series of mishaps, accidents and forces of history well beyond

his control. And the question is now, can he translate as he tried to

do in his speech this evening this remarkable upsetting surprising

victory into a coherent policy, a coherent approach towards

government, and the question of a coherent political force? Just one

line, I'm sorry, Martine, in the Guardian, I haven't seen it in the

other papers, the calamitous performance in the final TV debate.

I'm not suggesting any parallel with anyone who doesn't want to take part

in UK TV debates but French TV debates in presidential campaigns

before have not been massive vote winners. Marine Le Pen absolutely

flanked her major test last Wednesday. But will have helped some

people who are floating voters and said, this woman cannot be our

president. Yet the polls after the debate suggested it had not changed

things for her, for better or worse. But the polls immediately after the

debate said that the person who had won the debate easily was Mr Macron

and that he had the presidential qualities. The Times says a

landslide for Macron, with pictures of his supporters celebrating

outside the Louvre, he has got five years to prove that he can make

these changes that he's promising. And if not will she be back again?

This is what many people are predicting. Nigel Farage, who is

turning into our very own voice of the outside right in the UK,

predicted that she would return in the next round of elections and that

she would win. What she wants to do now is when a large number of seats

in the parliamentary elections so that she has some kind of foothold

to do that. There's also talk that you wants to change the name of the

party. That's right. In her acceptance speech, or defeat speech

I should say, she wants to change the name of the party. This will be

part of her changing the brand and distancing herself. She could do it

tomorrow or the day after. She's got to move quickly, she wants to get in

there and do well in the parliamentary elections. Macron said

this in his speech, he said he wanted to change things so that

people who voted for her would feel they would never have to vote for an

extremist again. That means he has to get the economy right, and

security, address this question of Frenchness, this existential threat

to French identity which many seem to feel. Those are very difficult

problems and if he fails it is conceivable that her vote will go

up. If nothing else, given the scale of the vote, given how comfortably

she got into the second round, it looks as if her great achievement is

to make the Front National the opposition within France. That is

her goal. How instructive will what happened in Britain beat the Ukip

vote where they lost 143 of their wards -- how will it be to the Ukip

vote? They don't have a single MP left, how instructive will that be

for Mr Macron on how to see off a party that is further to the right?

He is very well read, he met Theresa May back in February, by the way,

she has warmly congratulated Mr Macron tonight and says that France

is one of the UK's closest allies and says they look forward to

working with the new president who will take office on May 14 on a wide

range of shared priorities. What lessons? Well I think that he knows

that the task is huge. And I think his whole appeal to a lot of people

has been to say, I don't believe that looking at the experience,

having been in government for two years, as a finance minister, having

been also had two years the chief economic adviser of Francois

Hollande, people forget that, he has seen the inner workings of

government and says, we must forget these totally left and right issues.

And what is interesting and will be very instructive in the coming days

is to watch the number of Les Republicains, French conservatives

will continue to support Emmanuel Macron and who will be prepared to

have their names put with him and say that they will support him in a

government, it will be very instructive to see who he presents,

who he appoints as Prime Minister, one who will be appointed

immediately, man or woman, I'm hearing a lot about 52-year-old MEP

woman tonight, whether it will be her or not, and that Prime Minister

May not be his Prime Minister depending on what the results are in

the parliamentary elections and to the Minister decides -- of the

people decides in June he must work with. Cloud of a Brexit, said the

headlines, EU leaders hailing the victory, Angela Merkel delighted

that she has this man to do business with. Should she be? That's the

interesting question. There are two takes on his win when it comes to

Brexit. On the one hand like most European leaders he has been very

critical of Brexit. He described it as a crime which is an extraordinary

word to use. So there's a lot of worry that in a crude national

interest since this was a bad outcome for Britain because at least

Marine Le Pen what have been Eurosceptic and would have been

against the EU whereas this man very much stands for a unified Europe. On

the other hand what does he want to do. He wants to shift institutional

power. And the focus of economic decision making away from Germany,

which dominates, and towards France. Emmanuel Macron is interested in a

more integrated economic policy and crucially or deflationary one, which

encourages Germans to spend and consumers to buy stuff and to get

the European economic working again. He is far more of a Keynesian fan a

Conservative. So you could argue that he represents an attitude which

modern Eurosceptics would welcome. So I don't know if it's such a good

thing for Angela Merkel. We could seek the politics of Europe shift

slightly away from Berlin and towards Paris. I'm not sure I share

that vision. I think he has indicated that he wants to work

closely with Angela Merkel. In fact Marine Le Pen, one of her main

accusations in the TV debate said, either way it will be a woman who

will rule, Sunday night because she said it would either be hurt or

Angela Merkel. The point is, that either her or Angela Merkel. Mr

Macron knows that he needs to work closely with Germany. It is a very

different vision of France in the EU and for the EU and Mr Macron said it

would be no walk in the park as far as the Brexit negotiations were

concerned and he has talked about also as the Daily Telegraph points

out, defending the integrity of the EU single market and the

jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. I think we could have a

rapid visit by President elect Macron. Remember that Theresa May

chose to meet him and just not to meet Marine Le Pen. I want to

quickly defend my argument... While you are doing that can be just show

the Financial Times? Thank you! We run extracts from the memoirs of the

Greek leader about the Greek crisis and he revealed that the one person

in Europe he felt was friendly towards Greece's interests and

understood what was being done to it was unfair and bad in the long-term,

was Mr Macron. He said he thought Mr Macron was squeezed out of taking

part in negotiations in the process because the Germans saw that he

disagreed with them on policy. One way in which again he is bad for

Brexit is, what France really wants to do is make sure that Britain

doesn't do a race to the bottom in terms of regulation and tax after

Brexit. So I think fans will really emphasise that strongly. France is

keen to attract the City and get a brain drain going from London to

Paris because it's been going the other way to such a long time. So in

that sense is bad for Brexit, probably. He says, Britain, you want

to be in control of your borders, we want to do it for you in Calais,

have it back in Dover. That's why I'm surprised the French election

hasn't made the front of the Daily Mail! There you are, said it. Hello

Daily Mail. Maybe they will their minds. I'm sure that there will be

discussions quite quickly about that. Let's see. It's one thing when

you are campaigning, it's another when you have the office of

president, and what they do decide on that, because that would change

things a great deal for people coming into the UK. But then a great

deal will change in the coming two years for the United Kingdom and for

Europeans coming possibly, depending on what the powers that be decide in

the Brexit steel and the status of EU Citizens and that equally of

Brits in the EU. And he needs some MPs behind him. He has, elections

will happen next month. At present En Marche, his party, doesn't have a

single member. So he's got to get some. Presumably he'll be able to

translate some of his momentum into a large number of seats. But if we

can assume that the first round of elections indeed reflected the

divisions accurately within France, there's no reason to presume that

Jean-Luc Melenchon's people want to do well or force were Ffion's

people, or indeed the Front National. So he may end up the

parliament that is quite difficult deal with. That's it the papers of

the moment, I'll be back with Tim and Benedicte at 11:30pm for another

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