The Duran Podcast - Political establishment furious with Macron

Episode Date: June 23, 2024

Political establishment furious with Macron The Duran: Episode 1938

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 headed to the elections? Well, the parliament, the 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 frankly brief anybody in the cabinet about this. He took them completely by surprise. The story that he consulted Nicholas Sarkozy, the previous French president, and that Sarkasie advised him to call the elections,

has turned out to be completely untrue. Sarkasie 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,

he's talking about, where's everybody, those who've seen it are talking about, is one that happened at the G7 when Macron, barely nobody really wanted to talk to Macron. He was, he found it very difficult to find people to meet and speak with. But he ended up having a clash with Georgio Maloney, who is, of course, much, in some ways, much more of a real politician that he is, and who's in full control of the Italian government. Anyway, they had a massive Rao, apparently, over the G7 communique on the topic of abortion rights. 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 and this Maloney looking at him. And she clearly looks furious and angry with him as well. And of course, the reason people are angry with him, including, I suspect, 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 Penz, now in crisis, the party of the centre-right, Les Republicans,

who claimed quite falsely, by the way, to be the continuous of, the Gaulist tradition, you know, the party that stands for what Charles de Gaulle used to stand for. Completely untrue, by the way, their liberals did 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 oustead. 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, you know, the traditional establishment party at the centre right is in some

kind of meltdown. Then Macron tried to get the left, some of the left, 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, informed a government led by a man called

Leon Bloom, which was very crisis-ridden, by the way. But that'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 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 the major part, one of the major figures on one of the other parties that make up this alliance.

I think his name is Glucksmann, I'm not sure what he's name is. Anyway, they disagree on issues like Ukraine, for example. So, I mean, 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, which is probably just about hold together until the election, but it's already coming apart or is starting to crack and disintegrate and come a part of the seams. 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 a degree of program. They're deeply unpopular. They are associated with the most unpopular presidents in the history of the Fifth Republic. I mean, most dislike president in the history of the Fifth 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 Rassamblement National, look like they're facing an over.

goal, whether something will sort itself out over the next few weeks as the election approaches, we will have to wait and see. 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 a consolidation of the centre and the left and the center 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 Macron's on his

way out. I agree. He's going to be relieved and he's going to be happy and relieved deep down inside. 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 knows it. Maybe he doesn't doesn't say it, but deep down inside, I think that Macron knows it that he's really screwed everything up. I think I think I think you're absolutely right. I think that also. another level. I think, you know, 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. For the other, he knows that he's not going to be president one way or the other beyond 2027. And he feels, I'm sure, that his genius is 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 sends that his own government has failed. And I think he will go. I mean, I think I, after we said it in our previous program, 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.

And then, of course, they pulled it back. They pulled the story back and said that he would, in fact, stay. But 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 them to vote for Le Pen. He is that unpopular in France. So 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 realizes this, is absolutely furious with him. And so is the global Western establishment as well, as we saw at the G7. Yeah, 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 there. They're narcissists, 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. You know, so they have to protect themselves from 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 and and what's the u.s going to tell you what's what's the biden white house going to tell you what is the what is the deep state going to tell you you can't call it word democracy of course we can call elections of course we can have elections we have to

have elections look at what happened to us if the EU parliament uh elections get the results that we got I have to call elections now I mean it fits very nicely for macron and su knack 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, they 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, Sunak, who is already, you know, married to the daughter of a billionaire, and it's himself an immensely rich man, you know, hundreds of millions. All the reports are that he's thinking of leaving the UK entirely and, and, you know, he's himself an immensely, and, going to the United States. And he's not convincingly denied 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'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, you know, 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 Sunac, and we'd already heard reports about this about Macro, that he was bored and frustrated with his position as president. He's attempt to try and create him, you know, set up a war with the Russians, which would have been exciting and interesting and all of that, didn't quite work out. I think that the, you know, 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 labor 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 Zarkegee, but with the other people who hold power in France was precisely the same in France.

Create a consolidation, use the elections to create a consolidation of the centre, push Le Pen back, prevent the slide to, Le Pen and the Rassemblement National, which looked like it was going to deliver Le Pen, the presidency in 27, 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. And 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. They misread everything. Sunak missed his team, his team misread everything. Macron and his team. 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 manage to come out okay in the elections, okay, Macon 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. Absolutely. He's not the same. Sunnick is fine with the fact that he's going to be in the U.S. enjoying his billions. And no one can hold anything against them. 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. If you look at Macron, I mean, apparently he's extremely cheerful and confident that he did the right thing as he's. 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 once it's 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 end it there. The durand. Dot locus.com.

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