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00:00All the journalists wanted to put questions to the president today, I believe.
00:05Yeah, the mood was one of, well, you know, listening what the president had to say
00:10and indeed trying to understand what all the messages were in his speech.
00:15Quite clearly, what he's trying to say is that both the extreme left and extreme right
00:19are anti-democratic forces in a sense, and that he places himself as the only credible alternative,
00:25those who are a safe hand in Paris, if you will, saying that basically everything will be worse
00:30if either this right-wing bloc allied to the national rally or the left-wing bloc allied to France,
00:36unbowed, were to take power.
00:40Also explaining that these alliances on both sides of the spectrum are indeed unnatural,
00:46that there are too many divergences, that they will never be able to rule the country properly.
00:51So those were very much the messages that Emmanuel Macron was there to push through.
00:55Also inviting political leaders across the board to join him if they wanted to be part of this centrist,
01:02moderate, according to him, credible political force that he's trying to assemble today.
01:08But I think everyone was obviously very interested in listening to what Emmanuel Macron had to say
01:14after the surprise decision last Sunday.
01:17He did take his time, spoke at length, took many questions,
01:20did seem very calm and in control of what he was saying, answering these questions to the journalists.
01:28So, yeah, these messages of saying that credibility is on his side
01:34and also trying to show what had been done, saying that the French...
01:37And that's interesting, he said, I heard the French were angry,
01:41I take my share of responsibility in the decisions that were made,
01:45and in this result, he says, we did a lot, a lot was not realized or understood by the public,
01:50and this is what we need to change now.
01:52We need to move faster, we need to be more efficient.
01:55So that is very much, you can see this beginning of campaign forming live here
02:01with the president explaining what his philosophy behind all of this is.