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Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Antisemitisms old and new feat. Deborah Leter from Tsedek!Olly and Marlon are joined by Deborah Leter from Tsedek! a decolonial Jewish group based in France to discuss the state of antisemitism in France, the relationship of the French Jewish community to Israel and why LFI's critics are wrong about antisemitism. Cover our newspaper expenses: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24Fund our deep dives: https://www.patreon.com/flep24Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch at flep24pod@gmail.com.Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/flep24Flep24's Twitter
2025-07-0848 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Weapons Sale at the Salon du BourgetMarlon and Olly go over the Salon du Bourget, a glitzy airshow to the Northeast of Paris where weapons companies show off their latest deadly hardware. We take a look at some of the new weapons systems, France’s military production goals, as well as Ursula von der Leyen’s justifications for dispensing with democracy as Europe rearms to the tune of nearly a trillion euros.We also take a brief look at the eight Israeli companies at the show, and the French government’s incoherent attitude to the country, its companies, its war and genocide.S...
2025-06-2011 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Faure’s Score and Seven Years AgoMarlon and Olly go over the results of the first round of the Socialist Party Congress, and what the results mean for the future of the party, the left, France, and beyond.Marlon also goes over a protest at a recent La France Insoumise speech in Paris by a group accusing Jean-Luc Mélenchon of antisemitism.Show NotesPS : Olivier Faure et Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol se lancent à la poursuite de Boris Valaud et ses voix | Libération (fr)Réuni avec le PCF et les Ecologistes, le patron du PS...
2025-05-2917 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Flep24/7's Romanian (???) Election Special with Dr. Vladimir BortunMarlon talks with Dr. Vladimir Bortun, a lecturer in politics at St. John’s College at the University of Oxford about the French connection to the recent Romanian Presidential election results. We talk about the far right’s accusations of French (and Moldovan) interference in the election, the historical links between the countries, and the politics of language and accents. We also get into what the election was actually about, the attitude of Romanian liberals to the West, and who votes for who and why in Romania.All that and more on this episode of F...
2025-05-2346 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)The Silence at BetharramOlly and Marlon hop on the mic to discuss the new revelations in the Betharram Affair and its implications for the government, the PS Congress and the failure of unity on the left. Show NotesFrance’s Once-Mighty Socialist Party Must Change or Die | Jacobin (en)Mélenchon vs. Hollande | New International (en)More Context From Flep24/7François Bayrou’s Coverup, and the 2027 Election (en)A Confident Government, a Shaken Bayrou, and Answered Questions (en)Cover our newspaper expens...
2025-04-2619 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)12 angry men, 1 angry woman (Le Pen Convicted)Olly and Marlon hop on the mic for a quick one breaking down the Le Pen conviction and the reactions to it. Cover our newspaper expenses: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24Fund our deep dives: https://www.patreon.com/flep24Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch at flep24pod@gmail.com.Fighting Fund: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/flep24Flep24's Twitter: @flep24podMarlon's Twitter: @MarlonEttingerOlly's Twitter: @reality_manager
2025-04-0216 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)The Veil of IgnoranceOlly and Marlon get on the mic to discuss far right politicians taking the mickey with expenses, the government trying to restrict Muslim women's ability to wear the veil even further, the internal politics of the socialist party and a potential future referendum. https://www.liberation.fr/politique/voile-dans-le-sport-bayrou-recadre-les-ministres-opposes-a-linterdiction-20250318_LILTWSZZZVEYDJWHEE456KLCBQ/https://www.lecanardenchaine.fr/breves/la-mare-aux-canards/828-12-mars-2025More Context From Flep24/7Party like it's 2005 w/ Stathis Kouvelakis | (en)Cover our newspaper expenses: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24Fund our deep dives...
2025-03-2417 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)European Rearmament, and Retirement RetiringEuropean rearmament is back on the table after the United States moves away from the continent with Donald Trump as president. Marlon & Olly discuss how various forces in French politics are responding to the call for a new European military order, as well as how the government is justifying its refusal to negotiate on the retirement age by pointing to a need for more military spending.Show NotesFrance’s “War Economy” Is a Prelude to Cutting the Welfare State | source (en)Trump’s turn against Europe is Macron’s opportunit...
2025-03-2124 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)(Re)building the red bases W/ Nathalie OziolMarlon and Olly are joined once again by La France Insoumise MP Nathalie Oziol to discuss the strategy that the party is putting into motion for the municipal elections in 2026. They talk about rebuilding red bases, which cities LFI will target, what an LFI city will look like and there's a bit of discussion at the end about the tidal wave of violent threats that the party gets. Nathalie's Twitter: https://x.com/NathalieOziolCover our newspaper expenses: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24Fund our deep dives: https://www.patreon.com/flep24Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch at flep24pod@gmail.com.
2025-03-0957 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)And if it was him?Olly and Marlon hop on the mic to discuss Ruffin, Retaillau and Villepin itching to run for president, LFI reaching out to the Greens, Manuel Valls' frosty welcome in New Caledonia and the drumbeat of political violence targeted against the left and Muslims. Show notes:https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/542779/manuel-valls-in-new-caledonia-war-of-words-and-clashes-over-independence-talkshttps://x.com/HugoCouturier/status/1894658665350926705https://actu.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/lyon_69123/municipales-2026-a-lyon-la-france-insoumise-propose-une-alliance-avec-les-ecologistes_62290617.htmlhttps://jacobin.com/2025/02/france-palestine-kazib-authoritarian-terrorismCover our newspaper expenses: https://buymeacoffee.com/flep24Fund our deep dives: https://www.patreon.com/flep24Want your book, magazine, or website advertised at the beginning or end of the show? Get in touch at flep...
2025-02-2731 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Party like it's 2005 w/ Stathis KouvelakisOlly and Marlon are joined by the Marxist academic and activist Stathis Kouvelakis for an in depth discussion on how the far right rose to prominence in France, the aftershocks of the 2005 EU constitutional referendum, race, class and the strategy of the left and why LFI is better than Syriza. Stathis is on the editorial board of the communist review Contretemps, trains LFI cadres in Marxism at Institut La Boetie and was part of the leadership of Syriza. Stathis' article on race and class in Contretemps https://www.contretemps.eu/alliance-tours-bourgs-antiracisme-classe/Cover...
2025-02-1758 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)François Bayrou’s Coverup, and the 2027 ElectionFrançois Bayrou is confronted on the floor of the National Assembly over allegations that he didn’t protect students who were abused, physically and sexually, for decades at the private Catholic school where his wife taught. Bayrou denies any knowledge of the allegations, and says he’s be suing Mediapart, who reported on the case last week.And Gérald Darmanin, the hard-line Justice Minister, wants to avoid a Le Pen-Mélenchon runoff in 2027. He says the way to avoid that is a primary for the governmental camp, which could include the hard-line Interio...
2025-02-1107 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Slurs, more slurs and a cycloneOlly and Marlon hop back on the mic to discuss Le Monde's stunning revelation that Macron is actually quite racist, a fact that a cursory listen to FLEP would have revealed to you.
We also talk about the devastation in Mayotte and the break-in at Mélenchon's house.
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2024-12-2133 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Prime Minister François Bayrou: France's Last Macronist, And Its FirstFrance’s new Prime Minister is François Bayrou, a wiley operator who was a recidivist candidate for president until hitching his wagon closely to Emmanuel Macron in 2017. Since then he’s dreamed of the most powerful positions in the state, and now he has one of them.
Some parties on the left like the Communists, Socialists, and Greens are eschewing the anti-agreementism of more radical La France Insoumise, who are already promising to bring forward a new no-confidence vote against the Bayrou government. They say it’s just the same old product that Barnier...
2024-12-1416 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)We do not negotiate with Macronists.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...
2024-12-1119 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A Dismal FaurecastOlly and Marlon discuss the last 24 hours in French politics.
We have long been bearish on the survival chances of the NFP and it looks like the breakup has finally happened and Faure has broken ranks with the rest of the Front.
We also talk briefly about Mercosur and announce the donkey of the day.
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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2024-12-0617 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)France's Government FallsThe government has fallen, and Michel Barnier is out. What comes next? Some people say presidential elections. Others say a rotating cast of soon to be defeated prime ministers, or government by decree.
Marlon goes over the scene where Barnier knew he was done, as well as the plans by France’s political forces to capitalize on the moment.
The goal? Winning in 2027 - or whenever the next election is.
Show Notes
France Is Being Held Hostage | The New York Times (en)...
2024-12-0509 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Michel Barnier's Wings of WaxBarnier tried to pass his budget via article 49.3 and is now facing a motion of no confidence which he will lose.
Show notes
Olly's New Statesman piece:
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2024/12/macron-no-confidence-french-government-about-to-collapse
https://www.liberation.fr/economie/budget-censure-les-acteurs-economiques-sont-inquiets-et-cest-inquietant-20241202_FRQU55FASRFCLHMCQK6WZZFP5Y/
https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/editorial/le-493-consequence-logique-et-fatale-du-jeu-de-barnier-avec-lextreme-droite-20241202_SSELWAUQEVE6RNIC4U3SZOWH44/
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2024-12-0321 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Ceci n'est pas un pogromOlly and Marlon talk about the hysteria in France over Israeli football hooligans getting beaten up in Amsterdam, reactions to the American election in France and some news about Le Pen + Olly talks about his brief encounter with Francois Hollande.
Show Notes for November 14th, 2024
- Israeli soccer fans were attacked in Amsterdam. The violence was condemned as antisemitic | Associated Press (en)
- Antisemitic Attacks Prompt Emergency Flights for Israeli Soccer Fans | The New York Times (en)
- No, there were no ‘antisemitic pogroms’ in Amst...
2024-11-1641 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Vive La Revolution Permanente? w/ Sasha YarapolskayaOlly and Marlon are joined by Sasha Yarapolskaya of Revolution Permanente a Trotskyist organisation which critiques LFI on the grounds that they are a reformist organisation.
Sasha discusses how she was polticised in France, coming there as a refugee from Russia, by the heightened level of class struggle on display, as well as harassement by the far right and why, in her opinion, Melenchonism is a dead end for the left.
Olly's previous interviews with Sasha and members of rev permanente.
https://novaramedia.com/2022/06/14/terfs-are-marginal-france-a-new-media-platform-plans-to-keep-it-that-way/
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2024-11-081h 10Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Budget BattlesThe conservatives stalled, and questions were raised about where all the value added tax revenue is going. Plus, Olly gives a timely rundown on all the splits in the New Popular Front. The Socialist Party is up to their tricks again...
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2024-10-3121 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Popular Fronts Old and New w/ Diane de Vignemont and Phineas RueckertOlly and Marlon are joined by Diane De Vignemont and Phineas Rueckert to discuss how the New Popular Front compares to the old one, and how the PCF went from a once mighty force to a party that busies itself with inventing new BBQ based forms of identity politics.
Diane's work:
https://www.humanite.fr/histoire/resistance/4-avril-1944-quand-le-parti-communiste-francais-entre-au-gouvernement
https://newlinesmag.com/essays/the-french-left-is-united-not-for-the-first-time/
https://ddevignemont.wordpress.com/articles/
Phineas' work:
https://phineasjfr.wordpress.com/
https://phineasjfr.substack.com/
2024-10-191h 09Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)France's F*cked FinancesOlly and Marlon discuss how Macronomics ruined France's finances and disproved the Laffer curve once and for all, Barnier's son's do nothing job, the agony of the Macronists in the new arrangement and LFI's training school for revolutionary cadre.
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-france-economics-business-tax-increases-spending-cuts-budget-crisis/
https://www.blast-info.fr/articles/2024/rima-hassan-coupee-par-bfmtv-anatomie-dune-sequence-mediatique-exemplaire-KPH5xfOfQgyeEmRHZIYxOw
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2024-10-1534 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Macron is down, Glucksmann is up, Le Pen is in court.Olly and Marlon return to talk about Marlon's attendance at the Le Pen trial, Barnier's governmental speech, Macron's blues, Glucksmann's plans and more!
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-case-of-blues-new-pm-michel-barnier-france/
https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/marion-marechal-au-figaro-j-ai-decide-de-lancer-un-mouvement-politique-20241007
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2024-10-0839 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)New Caledonia 101 w/ Nic MaclellanOlly and Marlon are joined by Nic Maclellan Correspondent for Islands Business, a monthly news and current affairs magazine published in Fiji to talk about New Caledonia, what it is, where it is and France's imperial crisis on the island.
Nic's twitter: https://twitter.com/MaclellanNic
Show notes:
https://islandsbusiness.com/news-break/deaths-at-saint-louis-overshadow-anniversary-of-french-colonisation/
https://newint.org/colonialism/2024/new-caledonians-are-still-fighting-be-free-france
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/190924/nouvelle-caledonie-le-calvaire-des-oublies-de-saint-louis?utm_source=global&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SharingApp&xtor=CS3-5
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2024-10-021h 26Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A Media In Need of Critique w/ Pauline Bock*Content Warning*
There is a lengthy discussion of a rape trial in this episode, so some listeners may find it upsetting and wish to avoid this one.
Journalist Pauline Bock joins Olly to discuss all things media related in France. They talk about how Pauline's job at media critique site Arret Sur Images, the coverage of the Gilets Jaunes, the ongoing Mazan rape trial and the Bollorisation of the media.
Pauline's work in English:
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pauline-bock
https://twitter.com...
2024-09-251h 08Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Michel Barnier's cabinet of curiositiesOlly runs through some of Barnier's choicest cabinet picks
TLDR: It's a cabinet choc full of reactionary catholics, the policy in New Caledonia is likely to remain repressive, Macronism's left wing wakes up with a hangover and the NFP pursues censure.
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2024-09-2315 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A New Government and a Beach TripThere may be a brief break in episodes - Marlon's headed to the beach this weekend. Until then, we wait on Michel Barnier's government, which he says will be settled by Sunday.
Show Notes
- Le gouvernement sera présenté «avant dimanche», selon Matignon
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2024-09-2000 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Election ReflectionsOlly and Marlon reflect on what we've learned over the last 100 days. Also more on the undemocratic austerity budget that is being forced through without scrutiny.
- Impôts : la Banque de France plaide pour un «effort exceptionnel» de «certains gros contribuables» ou de «grosses entreprises» - Le Figaro (fr)
- «Cette situation mérite mieux que des petites phrases» : Michel Barnier juge le contexte budgétaire français «très grave» - Le Figaro (fr)
- LR salue la «réflexion» de Michel Barnier sur «plus de justice fiscale» - Le Figaro (fr)...
2024-09-1934 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Macron! Macron! Macron! Beware Macduff! w/Nathalie OziolNathalie Oziol, La France Insoumise MP for Herault joins Olly and Marlon to talk about the budget, the strategy of LFI and her disagreements with Ruffin, as well as how she got into politics and a bit of Shakespeare.
Nathalie's Twitter https://twitter.com/NathalieOziol
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2024-09-1359 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)The Fourth Bloc Strategy
Olly takes a look at three stories today:
Bardella is accused of faking documents to get off trial, Attal and Barnier lay out their terms of engagement and the supposed left wing of Macronism cries over how right wing the party they're in is.
Finally Olly takes a quick look at Bompard's most recent blog about the LFI strategy, which they are calling the fourth bloc.
Show notes:
the fourth bloc https://manuelbompard.fr/2024/09/quatrieme-bloc-la-strategie-gagnante-de-la-france-insoumise/
Olly's article...
2024-09-1124 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Idols? Just about still alive. Enemies? In PowerOlly and Marlon talk about the nomination of the new prime minister, the protests, left strategy and why some pundits are wrong. Then they talk a little bit about Alexis Kohler and the eurozone.
Show notes.
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/france-socialist-party-melenchon-nupes-hamon-left-change
“Many of our fellow citizens think . . . [that a Socialist
is] an aspiring minister . . . or a traitor-to-be.”
for show notes
https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/michel-barnier-premier-ministre-a-force-de-vouloir-une-gauche-pure-on-a-eu-une-droite-plus-dure-regrette-nicolas-mayer-rossignol-20240907
https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/michel-barnier-va-effectuer-son-premier-deplacement-en-tant-que-premier-ministre-a-l-hopital-necker-a-paris-20240907
https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/en-direct-michel-barnier-premier-ministre-lfi-organise-sa-riposte-dans-la-rue-ce-samedi-7-septembre-20240907
Endeweld interview https://jacobin.com/2024/07/macr...
2024-09-0733 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Hidalgo says noooooooOlly takes a solo look at Hidalgo's complaints about blocking Cazeneuve and Sebastien Chenu's revelations that there were negotiations between Macron's camp and Le Pen to arrive at Barnier.
Olly also wants to say that there is one non racist French cartoonist, whose work is our logo so shout out to Allan Barte.
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2024-09-0612 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Can the NFP Last?Olly takes a solo look at the civil war in the PS. The integrity of the NFP hinges on it, but it's uhhh not looking great.
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2024-09-0113 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Éric Ciotti's Next Act and Bompard's LFI PlanÉric Ciotti, the long-time pseudo president of les Républicains since the LR-RN alliance was incorporated, might be moving on from LR, which he sees as indebted and no longer worth hanging around.
And Manuel Bompard goes on TV to lay out LFI's impeachment plan, the party's economic program, and what he thinks of the Socialist Party schism.
Show Notes
- Le dilemme des roses (Politico Newsletter)
- Dreams of Bollorisation (on Ciotti)
- French right's Gen Z leaders eye successful EU elections (Marlon's article on th...
2024-08-2806 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Schisms all the way downOlly discusses the strategic divergences in the NFP and the schism in the PS as well as the Figaro and Mediapart's reaction to Macron's soft coup.
Show Notes
https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/premier-ministre-apres-le-rejet-d-un-gouvernement-nfp-quels-scenarios-pour-matignon-20240827
https://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-parti-est-au-bord-de-la-rupture-apres-le-rejet-du-nfp-le-ps-divise-sur-sa-strategie-20240827
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/270824/la-sinistre-clarification-d-emmanuel-macron
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2024-08-2813 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Sad Young Man In MatignonOlly and Marlon hop on the mic to discuss internal left strategy, the role of antiracism in the PCF and the Greens, and the struggles of the boy wonder Gabriel Attal who has recently realised that everybody hates him.
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2024-08-2541 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)It Would Feel So Empty Without Me(lenchonistes)Melenchon makes a surprising offer to the Macronists - why did he do this?
The ranks of La France Insoumise continue to grow, and without the dissidents, the party remains more convinced than ever of its strategic orientation.
Meanwhile the Greens have their congress with new arrivals in their ranks.
Olly's recent Jacobin article on the state of France:
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/macron-journalism-fixing-france-reivew
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2024-08-2410 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Is This A Coup?Macron meets the representatives of the NFP... and refuses to name a Prime Minister.
Attal says the centrist bloc will censure any government with LFI in it. Mélenchon calls Macron an autocrat and Roussel calls his actions a coup.
Show Notes
- Our episode with Charles Devellenes on Macron's thirst for power
- Olly's Jacobin article
- Mediapart's rundown of the day
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2024-08-2313 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A Socialist Party and a Constitutional CoupThere's discontent in the Socialist Party over the alliance with La France Insoumise. Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol and Hélène Geoffroy want out again.
Éric Ciotti's party is defining its political course in the National Assembly - trotting faithfully along behind the National Rally, the most powerful force on the right.
And Gabriel Attal sent letters to his ministers laying out the cap on their budgets for 2025 - for many a political move, given the fact that Attal's government lost an election over a month ago now.
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2024-08-2106 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Macron Picks a Prime MinisterThe title is clickbait - sorry! Marlon takes a solo look at an announcement by Macron to host all the country's political forces on the 23rd of August to determine who the next prime minister will be.
The news sets off the typical paper-selling speculation about who the next Prime Minister might be (mostly familiar names, though one wacky hypothesis).
And Marlon goes over a minor Trotskyist sect and why the National Rally wants to kick it out of a beautiful beach side summer blitz.
2024-08-1707 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)RN Cleans House & NFP DividesMarlon takes a solo look at a report from Le Point into how the National Rally is laying the blame for their election results on bad candidate choices. The solution? Get rid of the people who chose the candidates.
The NFP's prime minister choice Lucie Castets looks like she's backing away cautiously from a commitment to immediately implement the program as she searches for a coaltion.
And Place Publique inches boldly towards a governmental coalition - away from the NFP's program too.
Show Notes
2024-08-1605 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Impasse!Marlon takes a solo look at the boring impasse French politics finds itself in as Macron continues to refuse to name a government. A veritable democratic scandal, which LFI President of the National Assembly's finance commissions calls an attempt by Emmanuel to essential cohabit in government with...himself.
Show Notes
- Un nouveau Premier ministre nommé fin août ou «début septembre», prédit le chef des sénateurs macronistes
- La gauche s'exaspère : « Emmanuel Macron veut une cohabitation avec lui-même »
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2024-08-1505 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Power LiftingMarlon runs through a quick solo episode on the fear of another RN surge, the goings on at the gym in the national assembly, the struggles of the poor lobbyists and the left in Paris.
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2024-08-1106 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)How to Lobby the LeftOlly talks about two stories, one in which the media tries to signal the return of Anne Hidalgo and one in which lobbyists lament the presence of La France Insoumise, who are unlobbyable!
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2024-08-1013 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Is France on the Right or the Left? Plus Paris gets rid of crimeMarlon takes a solo look at a new interview with Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who's on the left of the Macron grouping. She says there needs to be a coalition government which excludes LFI and RN, and that France is not a right wing country.
Plus, did Paris get rid of crime during the Olympic games?
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2024-08-0909 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Antifa, Austerity and Aubrey's resignationOlly and Marlon discuss Olly's meeting with Raphael Arnault, the looming austerity budget, the resignation of Lille's mayor and her history on the left of the PS as well as the possible failure of the flagship Olympic clean water measures.
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2024-08-0826 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)The Xavier Bertrand HypothesisXavier Bertrand's name keeps coming up as Macron's next choice for Prime Minister. We've talked about him before on this podcast, so Marlon goes through some of it in this solo episode.
Also - what to do with phone numbers? I want your answers and feedback on this.
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2024-08-0806 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Summer Conferences, Nice, and Popular CommitteeMarlon takes a solo spin through the tension in Nice, as the opening salvo in a battle for the country and the French right charges up between Christian Estrosi and Éric Ciotti.
A rundown on the summer conferences.
And LFI continues with its investigation into just how much the Olympic Games cost.
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2024-08-0706 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A Limbo Government of Non-MinistersOlly discusses some articles on the strange stasis French politics has entered into in which Macron is still governing as he always has, but no one really knows if this is actually a legitimate thing to be doing.
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2024-08-0610 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)We're so back: SocDem editionOlly and Marlon discuss the centre's attempts to rebuild, Sophia Chikirou getting in hot water over Hamas and why nazis are calling Olly a collaborator on Twitter.
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2024-08-0514 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Olympic Pride, Dinners with Michel, and France Goes to ClaremontMarlon takes a solo look at the renewed national pride in France the Olympics are spreading.
Plus, Sarah Knafo head to California with the Claremont Institute, and presidential hopeful Laurent Wauquiez spent over 1200 euros in regional funds on a diner with Michel Houellebecq.
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2024-08-0406 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Macron's Theater Days, His Unpublished Novels, and the Permanent Crisis of his Regime with Charles DevellennesMarlon and Olly interview Charles Devellennes, who's the Senior Lecturer in Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent.
Charles tells the about Macron's literary style, the unpublished novels Macron wrote, and the enduring effect Milan Kundera's "Jacques et son maître" had on young Emmanuel.
Charles also tells us about the own trajectory his interest in philosophy took him on down the path of political science, which culminated in his 2022 book The Macron Régime: The Ideology of the New Right in France.
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2024-08-021h 05Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A Former Macronist Spills the BeansOlly and Marlon discuss sabotage, the possibility (again) of Xavier Bertrand becoming Prime Minister, and an interview with a former Macronist discussing what the president is really like (we've mentioned him once or twice beforeon the show).
Marlon's interview with Marc Endeweld.
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2024-08-0218 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)How to Blow Up a Railway LineOlly discusses the sabotage at the French Olympics, Macron's attempt to rehabilitate his image, the reactions to the opening ceremony and the plot in the PS.
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2024-08-0111 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A Neo-Nazi Security Guard and a Prime Minister Who Wants To Be PresidentMarlon takes a solo survey of some news as France swelters, groans, and cracks under a heatwave (projection maybe? sure!).
There's the neo-nazi security guard on the private island owned by the mega-reactionary media mogul.
There's an action packed action pact from the outgoing current resigned who knows Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, and there's even a report that Attal still wants to be President.
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2024-07-3105 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A Tale of Two Exorbitant Spending SpreesIt's the 50th episode of Flap24!
Marlon takes us on a solo trek through two reports which came out today about just how much all these politicians are spending.
First there's one from Libération about the vice-president of the RN splurging on 4 star hotels to the tune of 400 euros a night during the 2022 campaign, which isn't illegal at all.
Then there's a Mediapart report on the recent report by the presidential palace's auditors on the 8 million euro deficit produced by nearly half million e...
2024-07-3008 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Arcane Assembly #1As news slows down in the holidays, Marlon takes a solo look at some of the arcana of the National Assembly, from important dates in the upcoming fall session, to a look at how parliamentary immunity works in the French parliament.
Marlon also ponders what guerrilla National Assembly warfare could look like.
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2024-07-2910 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Foreign Influence and Oppression OlympicsMarlon takes a solo look at those on Macron's right flank who are decrying wokism in the Olympics.
In more interesting news, a quick overview of the French Senate's report on foreign influence, and its plan for a massive public influence campaign on behalf of France's values, including massive narrative crafting to combat France's "enemies."
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2024-07-2807 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Dodgy envelopes, Olympic breakfasts, and plans on the horizon(s)Marlon stops in for a brief solo episode and runs down what the NFP's Prime Ministerial candidate is saying about voting with RN, the possible envelope fraud in a recent National Assembly vote, and some meetings of the various parliamentary commissions.
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2024-07-2606 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Assembly Commissions, Airwaves and Asahi OlympicsMarlon & Olly reunite for a duo episode, the first one in awhile, and discuss Olympic news, the latest updates from the National Assembly commissions, and polemics around athletes being allowed to compete in the Olympics under their national flags or not.
They also discuss the potential new Prime Minister's podcast, and take a diversion into Japanese politics, believe it or not.
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2024-07-2511 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Another NFP Candidate for Macron to RejectMarlon looks at the new joint New Popular Front candidate for Prime Minister, Lucie Castets. She's a long time civil servant with a public profile of advocating for public services and close links to the Socialist Party.
Everybody in the New Popular Front is publicly in favor of her being the one - but Macron's already saying that he still needs a majority and won't be appointing anybody new until after the Olympics.
Don't get too attached!
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2024-07-2405 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Project Périclès and The National Assembly BureausMarlon takes a solo look at who one some of the new elected positions in the National Assembly.
Marlon also briefly reviews Project Périclès, a 150 million euro plan by an ultrareactionary Catholic billionaire to help the RN win the 2027 presidential and municipal elections.
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2024-07-2207 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Up all night to get luckyMarlon's away so Olly runs you through yet another turning of the tables as the left regains the balance of power within the assembly.
He also talks about Megabasin protests and climate change.
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2024-07-2017 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Bourgeois Bloc Blues w/ Bruno AmableOlly & Marlon host Bruno Amable, the co-author with Stefano Palombarini of The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis.
Bruno's a political economist and a Professor at the University of Geneva, so this guys knows his stuff.
This is Olly's favorite book, so we really get into it.
Marlon hasn't read it but we have a good discussion about what the bourgeois bloc was, what it is, what alliances it's pursuing, its relationship to racism, and the way it dissimulates...
2024-07-2053 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)17 Deadly SinsThe first vote since the election is held, on who will be the head of the assembly and the Macronists play dirty to win.
The left remains without a PM candidate, and Marlon discusses rumours of a plot in Drancy.
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2024-07-1929 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Bello again, Baron Noir? (fixed)Marlon is away so Olly takes you through the complex negotiations on the eve of choosing a prime minister. The left still doesn't have a candidate! An intervention by friend of the show Stefano Palombarini puts Marine Tondellier in a tight spot and provokes a revolt in the ranks of the greens.
The PS and the Communists have other ideas.
The left did manage to find a unity candidate for the presidency of the national assembly however, and Olly goes over what he thinks is wrong with an article comparing Olivier Faure...
2024-07-1822 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A pied-noir, a Trotskyist, and an ecologist walk into a barAnd she says "ow, that hurts!"
In this episode Olly and Marlon discuss Laurence Tubiana, the PS, PCF, and Green candidate for NFP Prime Minister. They go over why LFI opposes her, her past and present Macron-compatibility, and her eco-anarchist offspring.
Olly goes into one possible centrist scenario for a President of the National Assembly, which will start to be decided on Thursday, and Marlon discusses how some long ago LFI parliamentary strategy may help the left overturn the retirement reform...if they can get a Prime Minister in...
2024-07-1720 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Headlines: Left's PM power struggle continues, a new right wing party? More MacronoLepenismOlly and Marlon recap today's French headlines - most notably the fact that a week has gone an still no PM has emerged.
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2024-07-1522 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Huguette Bello's Prime Minister ShotMarlon discusses La Réunion president Huguette Bello's unlikely Prime Ministerial shot.
He also goes over some of the objections to Bello in the role, including her positions on gay marriage over the years.
And Marlon touches on who in French politics is condemning what looks like a Trump assassination attempt.
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2024-07-1409 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Bruno's Bercy Boys Build A BudgetMarlon and Olly discuss the latest left wing grouping in France, L'Après, an outfit set up by some of the LFI dissidents. But are things as they seem in the new group? And who are they preparing the after for?
More rigamarole on where the government will come from - the left or the right? The unions threaten to strike come the Olympics if Macron doesn't name an NFP Prime Minister quick.
Plus, economic news: Bercy is at a loss for how to plan all their budget cuts w...
2024-07-1219 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Deep Dish With Cassandre BegousMarlon & Olly talk with Cassandre Begous to discuss everything about La France Insoumise.
Cass, who's in LFI and well versed in all the debates inside it, helps them go deep on the tensions between LFI and the PCF, why exactly Alexis Corbière, Raquel Garrido, and others broke with Mélenchon, and what the next government will look like.
Cass also tells stories about meetings with Mélenchon, how they got into politics, and why LFI was the place for them.
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2024-07-111h 08
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Coalition NegotiationsAll the different forces are jockeying for power in the National Assembly.
Who will govern? In a solo episode, Marlon breaks down the newspapers and the rumors.
There's the New Popular Front, with LFI trying to impose, but with the Communist party scheming with the centrists, reveals a leaked recording.
There's Xavier Bertrand, an LR heavyweight who was almost Macron's Prime Minister in 2017, who's calling for an LR Prime Minister. Reliable sources say he wants it. Marlon may talk with Bertrand tomorrow to confirm.
2024-07-1011 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)One weird trick to become a mass party (Feat. David Broder)Marlon and Olly are joined by Jacobin's Europe editor David Broder to discuss the results, the sociology of the RN vote and how LFI might break out of its metropolitan niche.
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2024-07-091h 00
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)From the Jaws of DefeatThe round 2 results are in. Olly and Marlon eat humble pie as things look better for the left than previously thought.
Though their analysis remains sharp! The RN still did very well and all of the focus on the left's factions is now highly relevant as the left attempts to form a government.
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Marlon's interview with Marc Endelwald
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/macron-rassemblement-national-snap-elections
2024-07-0843 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Dawn of an RN governmentOlly gets stuck on a train, so Marlon goes solo on the eve of the voting day.
Marlon talks about speculation about possible RN ministers, and gives an update on the Horaces surrounding Marine Le Pen.
Marlon talks about the latest thinking on a coalition of the soft left and the center, and how not everybody in Macron's camp thinks that's necessarily a good idea.
And Marlon discusses the castle owning Le Pen supporting demographic - including one former Socialist Party Free-Mason member who's...
2024-07-0722 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)1789 Will Commence AgainMarlon and Olly talk about the possibility of an abstentionist surge ahead of the second round of the vote on Sunday. "I don't want to do anything stupid," says one voter.
Olly watched the final debate/interview and talks about Clémence Guetté and Jordan Bardell's performances.
A bone-chilling, truly thuggish plot against a Reinaissance candidate reminiscent of scenes from Privet Drive strikes fear into the democrats of the North.
And a political scientist of some kind warns about a French January 6th - ca...
2024-07-0624 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Attal's Socialist Turn Against the RN?A short episode where Olly and Marlon hit the news, go over the latest developments on the prospect of a soft left coalition led by Attal, and integrating the right wing flank of the New Popular Front.
Marlon also talks about the new political phenomenon in the country...the inspiring Green Queen Tondelier. Meanwhile, the Green Party leadership discusses the abysmal European election performance.
Olly talks about Macron's political chameleon act, and Marlon relays a serious and weighty warning from Raphaël Glucksmann.
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2024-07-0415 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)RN Candidates, Desistments, and a Macron PlotMarlon and Olly go through some of the racist, creepy, and boneheaded statements from RN candidates, including one who isn't around, one who took hostages (she'd rather not talk about it for now), and a bunch of just racist ones.
Marlon also talks about a Macronist plot against a former minister to get an RN deputy elected.
And Olly talks with some people on Discord about politics.
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2024-07-0436 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Cease and DesistMarlon and Olly talk desistments, Bollore's secret campaign, the campaigns of the LFI dissidents and the sociology of the RN vote.
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Olly's article on Bollorisation is available here:
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/02/how-far-right-billionaires-are-destroying-french-politics-and-what-the-uk-must-learn/
2024-07-0340 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Right Here, RNOlly and Marlon go over the results in greater detail and politely disagree about the quandry the left is faced with.
A useful map of the different circonscriptions
https://www.contexte.com/article/pouvoirs/carte-des-legislatives-2024_193466.html?
Olly's reaction to the results: https://unherd.com/newsroom/has-marine-le-pen-conquered-the-centrists/
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2024-07-021h 04
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)First Round ResultsThe results are in. In a coup for FLEP24, but absolutely not for the people of France, they were as we predicted and the RN are the largest party.
Olly and Marlon go over the results, the voter sociology and the shape of the 'triangular' showdowns to come. Unsurprisingly that shape is a triangle.
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2024-07-0124 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Three weeks where decades happenedOlly and Marlon recap the past 3 weeks of a wild election campaign. That campaign is over. The first round votes will be cast on Sunday, June 30th.
From a shock left wing alliance, to a union of the right, and every politician locking themselves in their party offices in between, this is an excellent overview of the past 19 episodes of our daily look at news from the French election.
Alleged purges of parties and shakeups of candidates, and an unraveling and unalloyed racism running through the country's bloodstream set...
2024-06-3046 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Racism, fatigue and uncertaintyOlly and Marlon cover another day in French politics.
As the campaign comes to an end, nasty polling and motivated violence show a racist mood percolating while a muggy summer sets in.
Olly discusses news from French finance and the stock exchange, with many business titans not sweating the potential for change.
Marlon talks about Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin changing his Olympic plans, and the rumors floating around the capital about the security of the games.
Olly talks with an RN voter who convincedtheir normie conservative parents to give Le Pen...
2024-06-2942 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Le PizzagateMeyer Habib threatens to sue Delogu. Olly and Marlon discuss this, and other developments such as the stunning hypocrisy of the French political class on racism.
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2024-06-2825 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)No Country for the Old ManOlly and Marlon recap the debate rather loosely before diving into reminiscing about Melenchon's oratorical skills and wondering who will succeed him in that role.
Francois Hollande did an interview in which he didn't rule out him becoming PM and Olly and Marlon talk about the murky past of Alexandre Benalla.
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2024-06-2750 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A solo debateOlly's out today, so Marlon performs the labour of a Heracles and gives a run through of the right's campaign against Mélenchon for Prime Minister.
Marlon also looks at the recent polling which might have things looking closer than ever, the history of RN's hotly contested national preference policy, and touches on some of the night's debate (which Flep24 livetweeted), which we'll do a deeper recap on tomorrow.
Marlon also touches on how the coordination between the left wing parties is going, Le Pen's RN social program, and s...
2024-06-2615 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Darmanin's dinner dateOlly and Marlon recap the news - Mélenchon continues to be monstered by the press and Olly points out the centre left are high on their own supply.
Marlon talks about a meal between Darmanin and Edouard Phillipe (sorry again) and their post-Macron plan.
They also discuss the more fleshed out proposals of the RN's plan.
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2024-06-2430 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Anatomy of a FallMarlon and Olly meet up in La Villette to recap the second week of the French legislative elections in 2024.
Birds, laughing children, and a beautiful sunny day can't stop them from discussing the political state of play in that country of countries France, that city of cities, Paris.
They talk about the consolidation of the right wing block, the prospects for a right wing victory, the turn in French civil society towards giving the RN a chance, and the civil servants and ministers breaking down the gates to let...
2024-06-2337 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)An announcement from the left, a prediction for the right, and an apology to the centerIn today's episode we talk about Mélenchon's prime ministerial plans, his opinion of Bardella, and the far right's designation by the Interior Ministry.
Marlon gets a piece of mail from a shadowy figure from the past, and Olly goes deep on New Caledonian independence and fascists training in the woods.
Plus more polls: most people think RN will win.
And finally, a genuine apology to Édouard Philippe, we made a couple of jokes about his appearance while discussing his plans to reconstitute the ce...
2024-06-2324 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)"Macron has collapsed," says the RN; plus bond markets and gun traffickingToday's episode takes us over the latest polling, which looks a little better for the left but still shows just how far off they are. The right's got all the momentum just over week out, with Macron nowhere to be seen.
Olly talks about bond markets and a potential bank-run, and Marlon questions the ten-year bond yield rates.
Marlon goes over some of the discussions he's been having with LR-RN candidates. One of them needs tea, honey, and bed-rest, but still has some insight into the sociology of the...
2024-06-2238 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Mask off for MacronMacron and Darmanin reveal just how right wing they actually are with rhetoric taken from Action Française.
Marion Maréchal betrays Zemmour again.
Roussel objects to one of LFI's candidates and Olly is fed a line by Ruffin's camp that the guy's analyse.
Olly's piece on Macronism in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/18/macron-consultants-lobbyists-starmer-labour-
Marlon's piece on Darmanin and Action Française
https://footnotesnews.substack.com/p/islamo-leftism-king-darmanin-lizard?utm_source=publication-search
2024-06-1923 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A left wing plot, a right wing program, and a pension debateThe dissident left wing candidates rallied in Montreuil, and the press is whirling with reports about their next moves. Is a millionaire funding them?
Olly has an update from deep within the bowels of LFI about worries about so-called internal democracy.
Marlon talks a lot about pensions. The best time to start investing was 10 years ago. The second best time is now...buy an index fund.
And finally, will the RN roll back Macron's retirement reform? History says be skeptical.
2024-06-1940 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Cracks begin to showCiotti finds himself in legal trouble and Olly suspects lawfare.
Olly and Marlon look at the vague commitments put out by the RN and pontificate on why they've kept it loose.
Cracks begin to show in the Popular Front which was already held together with sticky tape.
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Olly's Twitter @reality_manager
2024-06-1844 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)A week where decades happenedMarlon and Olly go over new developments and recap and analyse others.
Come for the political forces that created the program of the New Popular Front, stay for the analysis of the right and their movements.
Marlon's article on the Horaces https://jacobin.com/2024/06/france-marine-le-pen-horaces-far-right
Olly's piece on New Caledonia
https://newint.org/colonialism/2024/new-caledonians-are-still-fighting-be-free-france
2024-06-171h 26
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)You wouldn't like me when I'm RuffingryAnother short one today as Marlon is on the road this time expect a long one tomorrow.
The left shoots each other again. The New Popular Front expands to include some suprising names.
Macronism looks like a sinking ship.
Marlon's new piece out in Jacobin:
https://jacobin.com/2024/06/france-marine-le-pen-horaces-far-right
A piece from earlier this year by Olly on the contradictions of both Mélenchon and Ruffin:
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/first-priorities
2024-06-1525 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Dreams of BollorisationCiotti meets Bollore for lunch and Bardella for dinner as he clings to power in LR.
The left suspends negotiations over domestic violence, Palestine, and the actual unspoken sticking point... who gets the good seats.
Marlon and Olly go on a tangent about the role of the Gaza genocide in French politics.
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Olly's Twitter: @reality_manager
2024-06-1334 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Zemmour betrayed.Marion Maréchal stabs Zemmour in the back. Macron makes a speech that no one listens to. LFI and the PS divvy up seats and a procedural coup prevents Marlon from voting.
Journalists Marlon Ettinger and Olly Haynes continue their analysis of the French Legislative Elections 2024.
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Olly's Twitter @reality_manager
2024-06-1331 minFlep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Unions Left, Right, and CentreJournalists Marlon Ettinger and Olly Haynes discuss the rapidly shifting landscape of French politics. Good news! the left unified! Bad news! so did the right! News that seems inconsequential given the showdown that's coming! Some centrists might also unify!
2024-06-1143 min
Flep24 (French Legislative Elections Podcast 2024)Oh Snap! ElectionJournalists Marlon Ettinger and Olly Haynes discuss Macron's decision to call a snap election, why he did it, the possibility of unity on the left, and the increasingly strong far-right.
Marlon's twitter: https://twitter.com/MarlonEttinger
Olly's twitter: https://twitter.com/reality_manager
Music: Once in Paris by Pump Up The Mind.
2024-06-1131 min