Olly and Marlon hop on to chat about the state of the negotiations for the new prime minister (they are not going very well) and LFI's plan to impeach Von Der Lyen over Mercosur.
Olly said that LFI's presidency of the group in the EU was new - *it's not* they have co-chaired the group with Die Linke since 2019, so their plan to rebuild the group may still be in the offing.
Marlon's NYT piece
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/opinion/france-marine-le-pen.html
Olly's Jacobin piece
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/france-centrists-nfp-parti-socialiste
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