The Duran Podcast - France, Gabriel Attal set to take on Le Pen

Episode Date: January 15, 2024

France, Gabriel Attal set to take on Le Pen

All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in France. One prime minister is gone, resigned, fired, and the new prime minister has been brought in. Macron is shaking things up. The official narrative is that he is shaking things up in order to prevent the rise of the far right and the dreaded evil Marine Le Pen. So this is Macron's way of shaking things up so that he can prevent Marine Le Pen from becoming president, I believe in 27, France has elections. But the real story here is the new prime minister, Gabriel Atal, and he is a young guy, 34, 35 years old, a carbon copy of Macron. He's the replacement. He's the guy that they have chosen to replace Macron. I wonder if Macron knows that this is the guy

that's going to replace me. I wonder if he sees this guy. He says, this is the guy that's taking it over for me after 2027. I think, I'm sure he does. And I mean, it really is, it really is uncanny. Because if you look at them side by side, I mean, they look the same. I mean, they look identical. I mean, it's, it's, you know, Macron Jr. I mean, if you were told that this new guy was Macron's son, improbable as that is,

that thought is, then I mean, you would believe it. I mean, they look so similar. it's uncanny. So, you know, you're absolutely right. This is the person. They're now grooming to replace Macron, to go against Marine Le Pen in the next election in 2027 and to try to take her on in the parliament and wherever.

Now, saying all of that, just a few points to make. Firstly, notice that Macron is not actually saying, but the Prime Minister that he's just sacked was actually not doing a good job. He's actually criticizing her conduct of policy. He's not suggesting that this new Prime Minister, Monsieur Atal, he's going to change policy on anything, in any way.

It's going to be more of the same. He's got a clever debating style, apparently, so they say, I'm not sure how true that is, by the way. But, you know, all of that. And it's pure politics and it's pure theatre and it's pure presentation. Macron or his handlers have looked for someone as close to Macron himself as they can find. And they found someone and they found someone who they're setting up to be Francis Justin. because that is the kind of person they've got.

Yeah. So, I mean, does this work? Does this work? Is the trajectory, the momentum behind Macron's collapse too great while the momentum behind Le Penz rise too great for even a Natal, a Gabriel Atal, to turn the tide? I mean, is it's just going to work? Three years ago, I would have said that it would work. I mean, I would have said that there is always such a big anti-Lupin vote in France that there is such a strong metropolitan Paris-based sentiment in favor of this sort of thing.

the French state itself is so strong that ultimately all of these factors would prevail and Atalb would eventually succeed to the presidency. I have to say, I think France has changed and I think it's changed in ways that make this much more difficult. I think a lot of people in France, and this has been a gathering thing, getting all the way back to the Yellow Vest protests,

I think a lot of people are very angry, very disaffected. Macron himself did not win a massive electoral victory when he was re-elected president and his party lost its majority in the parliament. There's more and more signs that the people of France are turning strongly against this metropolitan, neoliberal style of politics that is being imposed on them from Paris, Jacques Atau comes across as so much a part of that politics that I would have thought that in the French regions, in the industrial regions amongst workers,

this person, far from winning them over, is going to strengthen their determination to see change. I mean, that is my sense about France. As I said, it's been a slow, growing, groundswell of hostility to Paris. And, you know, when I say Paris, I mean, you know, the elite there. And I think that is probably going to intensify. So on balance, I think it will fail. And it should, by the way, because what we're seeing isn't real politics any more than we see real politics carried out anywhere else in the European Union.

what we see again is the usual games of musical chairs of people being parachuted into top positions I mean this man is 34 I mean what has he what could he have achieved as a technocrat as a minister in that time I mean he's completely untested he's completely he's no real background or you know know, experience behind him. He's certainly not ready in three years time to become president of France. Yeah. You know, just to wrap up the video, the interesting part about all of this is that the globalists, they just keep on rehashing the same playbook over and over again. I mean, France specifically, this is how Macron came to power. I mean, the way they're ushering in Atal is how they ushered in Macron.

I mean, back of the day, Macron was what, finance minister or something? And all of a sudden, as the election wasn't looking good for the globalist, globalist class in power, they said, okay, we got to bring up this Macron guy and we'll push him to the forefront and we'll create a story around him. And people bought it. Absolutely. And they voted him in. Exactly. But that was then, and as I said, I think France has changed since then. I think now things are different.

First of all, I mean, I'm sure that in the industrial areas, the working class areas, this man is not going to be attractive at all. I mean, they're going to look at him, and I think they're going to say, you know, this isn't someone who represents us. This isn't someone we want to see as president of France. I'm sure that is right. I think also, you know, the farming regions, the rural regions, it will be the same. There is a sort of middle class electorate which will probably go on voting for people like this.

I think even they are under a lot of economic pressure now. And I think they're already becoming disaffected. they've had years of Macron and Macronism coming on top of Hollande, who was essentially in a version of Macron, perhaps less charismatic, but I think they will look at this, that they remember the way Macron was brought in.

I think they're not going to fall for it this time. And Le Pen herself, I think, has gained more experience, more traction amongst wider sections of French society. I think she's better able to absorb this kind of thing that she was back then. But you know, don't underestimate them. You're absolutely right in saying that they've exhausted the copy book. They've, you know, they have no more imagination.

They can't come up with new things. So, you know, they're doing the same thing all over again. But there were other things that they've done before. which they haven't yet done and which they're likely to do like starting court cases. Well, they have already got prosecution against Repen underway. They would probably try and intensify that, bring more court cases against her. They will probably, you know, try and foment splits within her party. They will set up alternative candidates who will supposedly be further to the right,

that Le Pen herself is to try to draw support away from her. They will do all of these things. They've done them before. They will do them again. But as you said, I think that the effectiveness of all of these tricks is starting to fade because more and more people are getting wise to them. And people are becoming more and more fed up. All right.

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