France begins frenetic campaign after Macron poll gamble
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00:00François Hollande, the former French president, is back.
00:04The socialist, who left office without running for a second term due to record unpopularity
00:11levels, has stepped back into the limelight, running for his old seat in parliament.
00:17I took this decision because the situation has never been so serious in our country.
00:24The threat of the far right has never been so tangible.
00:29The Socialist Party already had a candidate in the former president's district, but within
00:34a few hours, it validated Hollande's name on the list.
00:39Voters were divided.
00:43He left after a huge failure.
00:47He's right to get involved.
00:49Everyone is reacting to what has happened.
00:53Former President Nicolas Sarkozy is also back, not to run, but to criticize Emmanuel Macron.
01:01In an interview, Sarkozy said the current president's decision to dissolve parliament
01:06may plunge France into chaos.
01:09Meanwhile, the man who was a historic leader of Les RĂ©publicains criticized Eric Ciotti,
01:15the party's embattled president's divisive decision to form a pact with the far right.
01:23Being the National Rally's junior partner is not an ambition, it's a way of giving up.
01:30Another president yet seems to have had an impact on the campaign, a late one, Jacques
01:36Chirac.
01:38Videos where he warns against an alliance with the far right have re-emerged on social
01:43media.
01:45But protests against the National Rally are a far cry from the Million People March organized
01:53when Chirac confronted the far right.