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00:00A frantic election campaign kicks off in France.
00:04With under two weeks to go until the first round of the parliamentary vote, the Renaissance
00:08party of Emmanuel Macron is warning of the dangers of the far-right and an alliance on
00:13the left.
00:14The Prime Minister openly hit out at former President François Hollande after his shock
00:18announcement that he's running for his old seat in Parliament.
00:22The former president is in the far-left France Unbowed alliance.
00:26This is not the alliance we want to win for the country.
00:29We want to win with the alliance on the far-right, which will be a disaster for the country.
00:34Emmanuel Macron has been eager to paint both extremes of the political spectrum with the
00:39same brush.
00:40It's a strategy his former prime minister, who heads his own party, but is part of the
00:45centrist alliance, is doing.
00:47Edouard Philippe, warning France's economic standing, is at risk.
00:52If France Unbowed wins or the national rally wins, I'm not certain.
00:56I'm not certain this economic attractiveness, this industrial attractiveness, will continue.
01:02And this worries me.
01:04Macron and parties in the centre received a big boost over the weekend after the captain
01:08of France's football team reiterated their message.
01:12Kylian Mbappé is against extremists and division.
01:15While centrist parties warn of the extremes in France, it was the possibility of the far-right
01:20emerging on top in the upcoming snap polls that brought hundreds of thousands of people
01:25in cities across the country over the weekend out in protest.