The Duran Podcast
Political establishment furious with Macron
All right, Alexander, let's talk about the French elections, which are coming up very soon. A couple of weeks, incredible. Macron, the most despised man in all of Europe and in all of France. How are things looking for Macron and his party as they head into the elections? Well, the part of it, the part of it, elections, not the president. Macron is not up for re-election. Just want to say that because sometimes a lot of people believe that it's Macron. That's up for elections. Yeah, the interesting thing is he's not up for elections, but the entire election is about him. And the most interesting thing about that also is that, of course, he brought on these elections. He triggered these elections when he didn't need to. And by doing so, he has created chaos within the political system in France in ways that I suspect he didn't expect. And he appears to have turned everybody against him. Now, there is two really incredible pictures about Macron, which have appeared over the last couple of days, which in my opinion says, say it all. The first one is a picture taken from his back. It's a black and white photo of Macron meeting with his cabinet and informing them that he was about to announce parliamentary elections. And he didn't, apparently, brief anybody in the cabinet about this. He took them completely by surprise. The story that he consulted Nicolas Sarkozy, the previous French president, and that Sarkozy advised him to call the elections, has turned out to be completely untrue. Sarkozy has come out and said, "I had absolutely nothing to do with this crazy idea." Anyway, you see this photo, you see this row of people looking at Macron. And the anger in all their faces, the sort of controlled fury, as they hear what Macron is telling them. And as one French commentator said, a look of almost hatred in some of the eyes, it's all there to see. It's quite remarkable. And of course, the other picture, the other film that everybody's talking about, that was everybody, those who've seen it are talking about, is one that happened at the G7, when Macron, apparently, nobody really wanted to talk to Macron. He found it very difficult to find people to meet and speak with. But he ended up having a clash with Giorgio Maloney, who is, of course, in some ways, much more of a real politician than he is and who is in full control of the Italian government. Anyway, they had a massive row, apparently, over the G7, communicate on the topic of abortion rights. It's hardly a big issue, you just thought. Anyway, they had a big, big row. And again, you see Macron going down a line of dignitaries at a dinner party in this, Maloney looking at it, and she clearly looks furious and angry with him as well. And of course, the reason people are angry with him, including us as Ben Maloney, is because they sense that at a very important time, a critical time, he has basically smashed all the furniture, the political furniture in France. We're having all of the various parties, apart from Le pens, now in crisis. The party of the centre-right, Le republiqueam, who claimed quite falsely, by the way, to be the continuous of the goalist tradition, the party that stands for what Charles de Gaulle used to stand for. Completely untrue, by the way, they are liberals in a way that de Gaulle emphatically was not. But I'm not going to go into that. Anyway, they've had a massive row. Their leader wanted to go into some kind of electoral pact with Le pen, the MPs of the party then voted to oust him. He barricaded himself in the party's headquarters. A court has now annulled the decision of the MPs. It's completely unclear who's leading the party or whether the party even exists. I mean, clearly that party, the traditional establishment party of the centre-right is in some kind of meltdown. Then Macron tried to get some of the left-wing parties to support his party, which is collapsing. The left said, under no circumstances, none of the left-wing parties were prepared to work with Macron. They all absolutely rejected any idea of some kind of political alliance with him, which is what I suspect he thought would happen. Anyway, they created, they cobbled together in a few hours of negotiations, these are the left-wing parties. A so-called popular front, which people in France will remember was a movement that was created in the 1930s, an alliance of the socialists and the communists to basically see off the far-right in France at that time. He formed a government led by a man called Leon Blum, which is not which was very crisis-ridden, by the way, but anyway, it's old history, but it's very much a part of the mythology of the left in France, the popular front of the '30s. So they're now trying to create a popular front for today, except of course that as soon as they created it, it became clear that they can't stand each other or the various parties that make up the so-called popular front. They all dislike each other, Jean-Luc Melanchon and one of the major figures on one of the other parties that make up this alliance. I think his name is Gluxmann. I'm not sure what his name is. Anyway, they disagree on issues like Ukraine, for example. So there's already divisions about that. Melanchon has gone and is now sacking all sorts of people within his own group that he doesn't agree with and is promoting others. So it looks like this popular front, probably just about hold together until the election, but it's already coming apart, or it's starting to crack and disintegrate and come apart of the scenes. And of course Macron's party in total disarray, they don't know what they are supposed to stand for. There's got no time to set degree a program. They're deeply unpopular. They are associated with the most unpopular presidents in the history of the Republic. I mean, there's like president in the history of the Federal Republic. Everybody senses that they're going down as well. So at the moment, I have to say this, Le Pen and her party, the Asomble Mon, as you know, look like they're facing an open goal. Whether something will sort itself out over the next few weeks as the election approaches, we will have to wait and seek. But one way or the other, the establishment in France, are furious with Macron. And whatever it was that Macron thought he was doing by calling this election, whether he really thought that there would be the consolidation of the centre and the left and the centre right behind him in order to see off Le Pen anyway. That has clearly failed and it's not going to happen. And it looks as if Le Pen and her party are heading full, if not perhaps an outright majority, at least a very, very increased presence in the French National Assembly. Yeah, if Macron gets hammered at this election, if Le Pen really wins big then, and Macron's on his way out, he's going to be relieved and he's going to be happy and relieved deep down its side. Yes, he's going to be happy and relieved because he is getting rid of a France and a Europe and a world that he has contributed to making it to an absolute mess and he must. Absolutely. He doesn't say it, but deep down inside, I think that Macron knows that he's really screwed everything up. I think you're absolutely right. I think that also another level. I think his own vanity makes it very difficult for him to continue to be a lame duck in the changing situation that there is in France. One thing he knows that he's not going to be president one way or the other beyond 2027 and he feels, I'm sure, that he's genius. It's not properly appreciated. He probably blames the French but the fact that they haven't understood the great vision that he had for them. As you rightly say, he senses that his own government has failed. I think he will go. After we said it in our previous programme, the very next day, reports started to circulate that Macron had spoken to members of his entourage and told them that if Le Pen's party were to win the election, he would resign. Just what we said he would do. Then, of course, they pulled it back. They pulled the story back and said that he would, in fact, stay. It's not difficult to understand why they would pull it back because if the French think that by voting for Le Pen, they're getting rid of Macron, that might incentivise the devote for Le Pen. He is that unpopular in France. By saying that he will stay or at least by spreading the reports that he will indeed stay. They're perhaps giving less of a reason for people to vote for Le Pen. Anyway, one way or the other, he has created turmoil within France and the French establishment, I don't know whether he realises this, is absolutely furious with him. So it's the global, western establishment as well as we saw at the G7. I don't think the elections in France or in the UK, Sunac and Macron, the fact that they've called elections, I don't think this is a coincidence. I'm not saying they coordinated. I'm just saying this is their personality type. They're narcissist, ego-driven personality type where they say, you know, this is the best way for me to extract myself from the catastrophe that I've created, but I can never own up to the fact that I've created it. They have to protect themselves from actually taking responsibility and accountability for everything that they've made a mess of. And so the most convenient way to get out of this mess is to just call elections and just get out. It's simple. And what's the US going to tell you? What's the Biden White House going to tell you? What is the deep state going to tell you? You can't call it. We're a democracy. Of course we can call elections. Of course we can have elections. We have to have elections. Look at what happened to us at the EU Parliament elections, get the results that we got. I have to call elections now. I mean, it fits very nicely for Macron and Sunac, different narrative, but you know, the same type of result, the same type of outcome. And you can tell they're not really campaigning. They don't really, they don't want to be reelected. These guys really don't. This is absolutely true. They don't want to say power in Macron's case. I absolutely. I think you're absolutely right about the personal motivations of these leaders. I mean, Sunac, who is already married to the daughter of a billionaire, and is himself an immensely rich man in hundreds of millions, all the reports are that he's thinking of leaving the UK entirely and going to the United States. And he's not convincingly denying them, by the way, just saying. So I mean, I think that he's already looking to where he's going to go. He's not really wanting to stay in Britain. Whatever mess he leaves behind it, it's fine for others to sort out with Macron, where he's not quite in the same position, but he comes to the same world of privilege and power. And I think he calculates that, again, whatever the mess he leaves behind is, he'll be able to retreat back into it and all would be forgiven eventually. And I think about that, he's right, by the way. I think he's so useful to people in the global setup. And besides, as we've said many times, failure for these people is not something that they hold against you very much in the long term, on the country. It can actually get you promoted, it can turn out to your advantage. But I think there was another reason, quite apart from the fact that both Macron and Sunak, and we'd already heard reports about this, about Macron, that he was bored and frustrated with his position as president. His attempt to try and set up a war with the Russians, which would have been exciting and interesting and all of that, didn't quite work out. So I think that apart from the fact that they do want to go, I think that there was a major misreading of the political situation in both countries. In Britain, as I said previously, the election was called when it was, partly in order to prevent parties on the left and the right organizing. So as to challenge the conservative Labour duopoly and the ultimate position of the establishment. It hasn't worked out because Nigel Farage has thrown himself into the election there and turned everything upside down. And it looks as if the Conservative party might be heading towards collapse. So that wasn't, I think, the plan, the original plan, but we can see what the original plan was. I think the original plan, again, in France, and I think there were probably fairly wide discussions, maybe not with his cabinet and with people like Sarkozy, but with the other people who held power in France, was precisely the same in France, created consolidation, used the elections to create a consolidation of the centre, push the pen back, prevent the slide to Le Pen and the Ahsom Le Mans, which looked like it was going to deliver Le Pen the presidency in 2027, try to short circuit all of that and block Le Pen before she gets there. And again, it's not quite working out, but then it's not surprising because the people that Sunak and Macron are almost certainly talking to are not people who know very much really about electoral politics because they've never worked inside them. That's the fundamental problem they have. They don't really understand how the flows of opinions in elections really work. Yeah, I agree with you that they misread everything. Sunak, his team, his team, misread everything. Macron and his team, they misread everything, but the two men, I'm certain, are not regretting the fact or sorry at the fact that things have been misread because for them, if they managed to come out okay in the elections, okay, Macron says, okay, I got the vote, the support of the French people, I got another three years, fine, you know, I'll do my three years. But if things fall apart, Macron, he can move on to the next bigger and better thing, and I think he's fine with that. Sunak the same. So that's fine with the fact that he's going to watch the US enjoying his billions. No one can hold anything against him. I think that's the key. The party establishment, the globalists, they're not going to really be able to go after them either. No, I agree with that completely. If you look at Macron, apparently he's extremely cheerful, confident that he did the right thing, as he says, he seems to be buoyant, if anything, whereas Sunak, well, I mean, he's obviously not enjoying the election very much, but then elections have never been his thing. He doesn't look particularly depressed, I suspect, went all over. He'll be Demob happy, frankly. It was never something that he was really comfortable doing, and he'll be happy to be rid of the whole thing. Absolutely. All right, we will enter there, the dorand.looks.com. We are on Rumble Odyssey, Bitchew, Telegram, Rockfin, and TwitterX, and go to the dorand shop, pick up some football merch, use the Code Football 24. Take care. [Music]