French Government on Brink of Collapse; SpaceX Valuation Takes Off

Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Good morning, I'm Nathan 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.800 Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:18.000 following today. Karen, we begin with turmoil overseas. The government 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.680 in France is on the brink of collapse. Opposition lawmakers 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.760 have filed two motions of no confidence in the administration 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.400 of Prime Minister Michel Barnier. Marie Le Penn's National Rally 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:32.519 and a leftist alliance have both called votes tomorrow. Together 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.800 they have enough members of the National Assembly to topple 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.479 the government. The Prime Minister, Michel Barnier appealed to his 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.360 fellow politicians for their support. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.080 It's a fix. This bill is now here. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.280 Now is the time to act inflement. I believe we've 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.120 now reached a moment of truth which confronts everyone with 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.960 their responsibilities. It's now up to you, members of the 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.400 Parliament of the nation, to decide whether our country adopts 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.960 responsible financial texts essential and useful to have fellows citizens. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.320 Prime Minister Michel Barnier spoke in the French National Assembly 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.160 after invoking a constitutional override to force his social security 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.920 budget through parliament, and that is what triggered the no 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:15.120 confidence votes. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:15.680 Well, Nathan. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.480 The French government must adopt a budget by the end 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.600 of the year or use an untested emergency law to 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.000 keep state of services running. Bloomberg News Paris bureau chief 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.319 Alan Katz says Barnier is in a vulnerable position. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.760 He's opened himself up to a no confidence motion that 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.800 he's very likely to lose because the left wing coalition 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.479 plus this far right party of the National Rally are 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.200 going to come together. They have said that they're going 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.040 to vote against Balni for this, which means they're extremely 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.360 likely to have an absolute majority, that means at least 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.640 two hundred and eighty nine votes in parliament, and that 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:47.480 they really will push him out of office. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.880 Bloomberg News Paris bureau chief Allan Katz says the uncertainty 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.800 around the budget has pushed bond investors to punish France's 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.640 sovereign debt, driving up borrowing costs, and a government collapse 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.320 could lead to painful consequences for the French economy. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.120 As it happens, Karen. President elect Donald Trump plans to 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.359 head to Paris this weekend, not because of the crisis, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.600 but to celebrate the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral. Trump 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.160 announced that on truth Social last night. It was part 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.280 of a flurry of social media posts that also included 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.240 a warning to Hamas. The President elect says there will 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.239 be quote all hell to pay if all the hostages 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.240 aren't released from Gaza by January twentieth. Bloomberg National security 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.720 reporter Daniel Flantley says it's not clear just what that means. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.760 If you talk to folks around the President elect, people 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.680 who are supporting him, people who who has nominated for 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.679 key positions like National Security Advisor, they talk about him 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.400 bringing back to terrence to the office. Whether that means 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:49.040 employing US troops or US firepower to somehow bring this 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.800 situation to a close with regard to the hostages or not, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.040 you know, that's unclear. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.240 Bloomberg's Dan Flantley says Trump's been pushing to bring American 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.400 troops home, but that might not rule out a US airstrike. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.800 In another truth Social post, the President elect repeated his 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.200 opposition to Nippon Steele's planned buyout of US Steal. That 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.079 decision will ultimately be up to President Biden unless it's 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:09.640 delayed again. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.200 Trump also announced. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.639 Businessman Warren Stevens is his pick to be the US ambassador. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:14.720 To the UK. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.640 Stephens was a major contributor to Trump's twenty twenty four campaign, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.560 though he funded groups that opposed Trump's run in twenty sixteen. 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.720 Now, Nathan, let's get to the latest from the Middle East. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.160 Israel says it's still committed to a ceasefire in Lebanon. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.200 After Hezbollah claimed its first attack on an Israeli military 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.600 site since it took effect last week, Israel responded with 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.960 its heaviest airstrikes on Lebanon since the truce began. Win 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.480 House National Security spokesman John Kirby says the ceasefire is 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.120 holding largely speaking. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.920 Turning to markets, Karen, futures are holding steady following another 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.320 record close on Wall Street. In fact, was the SMP 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.160 five hundred and fifty fourth record this year, and why you. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.280 Professor Oswath Domodoron, who is known for his expertise on valuation, says, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.680 by the Magnificent seven on any corrections. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.400 I have never seen a group of companies carry a 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.800 market for as long a period as the mag seven. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.560 Fifteen percent of the gain in all US equities across 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.320 seven thousand stocks has come from six to seven companies. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.000 The numbers are mind boggling. You know, we're talking trillions 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.239 of dollars in market cap added every year. The MAG 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.839 seven companies alone, if they were a market, would be 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.680 the second largest equity market in the world after the 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:30.839 US equity market. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:37.200 And why you Professor Asa Tomo Daharn says the MAG seven, Tesla, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.120 and Nvidia have been responsible for an outsized amount of 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.560 US equity index gains for years. A Bloomberg gage of 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.039 the Mag seven has surged sixty percent so far this year, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.039 after doubling in twenty twenty three. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.359 Well Nathan Bloomberg News has learned SPACEXS and discussions to 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.480 sell insider shares that could boost the value of Elon 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.000 Musk's rocket and satellite company to around three hundred fifty 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.200 d billion dollars. That would be a significant premium to 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.320 a previously mulled valuation of two hundred and fifty five billion, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.080 as reported by Bloomberg News just last month. The potential 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.200 valuation surge underscores the enormous gains that Musk's empire has 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.080 seen since the presidential election. Tesla's shares are at more 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.680 than forty percent since November fifth, with a Bloomberg Billionaire's 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.640 Index now putting Musk's wealth at more than three hundred 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:25.919 and fifty billion dollars. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.640 But it's not all good news for the world's richest person. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.080 Karen Musk's multi billion dollar Tesla pay package has again 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.680 been rejected by a Delaware judge, even though shareholders support it. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.080 More from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.400 Tesla says that will appeal despite the June thirteenth shareholder 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.560 vote at the company's annual meeting, a Delaware chance re 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.440 Court judge decided to stick with her original finding in January, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.359 but the company's board was too much under the influence 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.120 of a billionaire entrepreneur when it adopted the plan in 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.159 twenty eighteen. The stock options package was initially worth two 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.920 point six billion and spine to fifty six billion by 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.680 the time the judge canceled it. McCormick's ruling, striking down 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.960 the largest ever pay arrangement for a US corporate executive, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.159 could take a giant bite out of Musk's wealth. In 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.960 New York, Charlie Bloomberg Radio, All. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.280 Right, Charlie, thank you well. Turning to the economy, Now, 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.840 we are just over two weeks away from the final 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.800 rate decision of the year, and three Fed officials made 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.000 it clear they expect the central Bank to continue cutting 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.320 interest rates over the next year. Here's Governor Christopher Wohler 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:30.520 at present. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.120 I lean towards supporting a cut to the policy rate 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.400 at our December meeting. That decision will depend on whether 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.359 data that we received before then surprises to the upside 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.240 and alters my forecast for the path of inflation. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.360 And Moller's comments were echoed by New York Fed President 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.880 John Williams and his counterpart from Atlanta, Raphael Bostik, who 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.440 said economic conditions merit more cuts, but stopped short of 0:06:54.480 --> 0:07:00.640 saying they favor a December reduction. Time now for a 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.359 look at some of the other stories making news in 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.120 New York and around the world, and for that were 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.640 joined by Bloomberg's Michael Barr Michael, good. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:07.919 Morning, Good morning Karen. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.120 There's criticism from both sides of the aisle after President 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.560 Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon for his son 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.680 Hunter shortly before he was set to be sentenced for 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.360 a federal gun conviction and a separate tax evasion case. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.080 Why NOWSE spokeswoman Karine Jean Pierre. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.160 He said he wrestled with this and because he believes 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.920 in the justice of sum but he also believes that 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.040 the war politics infected the process and led to a 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.360 miscarriage of justice. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.480 Several Democratic governors and lawmakers saying that while they understand 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.120 a father's concern for his son, the president tarnished his 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.640 legacy and put the interests of his family ahead of 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.240 the country. An emotional scene in South Carolina in the 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.520 case of a drunk driver accused of killing a bride 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:59.000 on her wedding night, Jamie Lee Komorowski slammed into the 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.960 bride and groom in a April of last year. Kumrewski 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.520 pleaded guilty to dui and reckless homicide charges after driving 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.880 sixty five and a twenty five mile an hour zone 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.680 on a narrow road when she slammed into a golf 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.080 cart with the newly wents. The judge issued the maximum 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.520 sentenced twenty five years behind bars. In courts, Kumrowski, who 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.600 is twenty seven, apologized. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:22.880 To the family. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:27.360 Four sepsibility. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.040 The briye, thirty four year old Samantha Miller, died still 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.560 wearing her wedding dress. Police and Boulder, Colorado say new 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.560 tips may help officials move closer to solving the violent 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.960 murder of six year old Jambinet Ramsey nearly thirty years ago. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.559 Shambinet's parents and brother were cleared in two thousand and 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:51.520 eight after additional DNA evidence was found. ABC reports theirs 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.160 were A team of experts is going through the remaining 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.520 evidence using modern scientific and cold case techniques to try 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.200 and crack the case. The Great Lakes region has been 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.360 dealing with dangerous winter weather, with snow totals approaching six 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.840 feet in some areas. Western New York has been walloped 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.400 with more than fifty four inches of snow in the 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.360 rural town of Cassadega. Doug Allbrich says the weight of 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.480 the snow has taken a toll on a farm he 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.200 and his wife have owned for twenty years. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.000 Chaotic scene inside this barn that's collapsed. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.360 We've got animals that are heard now. One of the 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.280 firemen that was here to help clear the scene had 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.080 something colass on and he's heard too. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.920 The Lake Effect snow has also fallen in parts of 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.480 Pennsylvania and Michigan. Global News twenty four hours a day 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.000 and whenever you want it with the Bloomberg News. Now 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:38.800 how Michael Barr, this is Bloomberg Karen. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:45.760 All right, Michael Barry, thank you time now for the 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.160 Bloomberg Sports Update Bronc to you by trin State Odi. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.439 Here's John stash Hour, John, good morning. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.960 Good morning, Karen. First meeting the season between the Rangers 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:55.760 and Devils. Rangers got out to the good start of 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.640 the season. Right now mired in a deep slum. Devils 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.559 have been playing well sure enough at the Guard in 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.760 All New Jersey. Two goals in the first period, three 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.679 more in the second. Devils won five one. Jack Ughes 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.800 scored twice. They're twelve and five over the last seventeen games. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.880 Rangers have lost six of their last seven. That's lost. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.480 In Chicago won twenty eight one oh two. Josh Giddy 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.960 had a triple double for the Balls. Next in Orlando 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.040 tonight at the Garden Magic had the third best record 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.760 in the East. By the night Football in Denver, the Broncos, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.720 with their third straight win, looking like they'll be an 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.800 AFC wildcard team. They outscored Cleveland forty one to thirty 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.320 two in defeat Browns QB. Jamis Winston threw for four 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.280 hundred and ninety seven yards four touchdowns, but also three interceptions, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.880 including a game ceiling picked six under two of us 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.559 to place big of the quarterbacks, Jets coach Jeff Ulbrich 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.760 asked if his starter will continue to be Aaron Rodgers. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.720 We have great belief heary, We really do, and we 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.200 think he gives us the best opportunity to win. After 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.559 assessing yesterday's game, I thought there was moments in the 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.280 first half where you saw Aaron Rodgers. I thought there 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.199 was moments even in the second half free sorry Rodgers. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:00.520 And then there was moments that he didn't play to 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.839 his standard, and he tell you the same. So we 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.600 think he gives us. We believe that he gives us 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.360 the best opportunity to win. So he's our quarterback. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.400 Rogers turned forty one yesterday, certainly has not played like 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.080 he did all those years in Green Bay. As for 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.199 the Giants, Sami DeVito said to be trending towards a 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.439 return to the lineup Sunday against New Orleans. He missed 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.240 the Thanksgiving game, but the Giants' best defensive player, Dexter 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.520 Lawrence done for the year dislocated elbow. The Saints of 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.520 lost Taysom Hill. The was a season an they knee injury. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.040 Christian McCaffrey, the forty nine ers star, also done with 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.199 knee injury. He had missed the first eight games with 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.520 the Achilles. Long time Yankee Catrick Kyle Lagashioka, who played 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.600 last season in San Diego after being part of the 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.480 Wan Soto trade, has signed with Texas. Johns Stashower Bloomberg 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.199 Sports Kenyan. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.960 Coast to Coast on Bloomberg Radio, nationwide on Sirius XM, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.920 and around the world on Bloomberg dot Com and the 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:55.160 Bloomberg Business app. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:55.920 Nathan Hager. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.599 The French government could collapse as soon as tomorrow. Lawmakers 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.280 in Paris have scheduled a no confidence vote after Prime 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.360 Minister Michell Barnier forced through an unpopular budget through a 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.840 constitutional mechanism and without lawmaker approval. This crisis has sent 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.440 French bond yield soaring, and it's led to a warning 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.600 from Barnier of a storm in financial markets if. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:16.400 He is forced out. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.720 For the latest Rejoined from Paris by our bureau chief 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.520 in the French capital Bloomberg's Alan katz Alan Good Morning. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.160 Start off by asking what got the French government to 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.880 this point, Why is Barnier's budget so unpopular? 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.120 Well, he was really given a bad hand to start, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.320 or he took a bad hand to start. This all 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:42.160 came from President Emanuel and Maccoon's decision to dissolve parliament 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.600 back in June and holds snap elections, which resulted basically 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.400 in a parliament or lower House of Parliament that was 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.760 really divided sort of into three blocks. We have sort 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.600 of a far left block, a centrist block, which Donnie 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.600 came pista vary from the right edge of that Centri's block, 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.920 and then a far right group. And so Donnie never 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.719 had a And the big test for him, the big 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.120 thing he was really going to try to do that 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.040 was not always at all evident that was going to work, 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.760 was pushing through this budget. And at the end of 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.320 the day, there's a lot of sort of wrangling back 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.280 and forth and a lot of compromises. Actually the boundary 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.560 it made to try to get the far right on 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.320 board with his budget. There was one element that he 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.840 refused to agree to, which is about indexing retirement payments 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.080 to inflation and as a result they the right said, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.440 the far right said that they would not support his 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.640 budget and it would file there no confidence motion. The 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.000 left as long said that they were going to vote 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.599 for a no confidence motion. And if you had the 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:42.000 two together, that means he's really almost certainly going to 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.079 be forced out tomorrow. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.160 What happens then, if Michel Barnier is forced out, does 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.840 it just go to another formation of government by the 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.120 President Emmanuel Macron. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.280 So it's actually quite a good question because in normal 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.840 parliamentary systems, a government that loses a no vote and 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.280 therefore falls as a result causes there to be new 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.640 parliamentary elections to try to get a new majority. In France, 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.640 the way the system works is that you can only 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.120 dissolve parliament and call a new vote a maximum of 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:18.320 once per year. So, because Emanuel MacCall dissolved parliament and 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.560 had this election last to the Jill, what the first 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.320 round is in June? The second round was actually the 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:26.200 first tick of July. There can't be another, Uh, you 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.160 can't disolve parliament again until July of twenty twenty five, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:30.800 and so you're sort of stuck with the parliament that 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.800 you have so tomorrow night, if he loses this no 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.760 confidence vote, as people expect, he would actually stay in 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:43.640 office temporarily as a sort of a former but character sorry, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.720 I guess there is a caretaker prime minister and with 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.280 a caretaker government, and that would stay in place until 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.760 MacCall the President names a new prime minister and government. 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.200 The difficulty is that a new government would be in 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.320 exactly the same situation that the Boalnier was in, which is 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.360 with no majority in Parliament because such a georgy it 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.520 really doesn't exist, and sort of trying to figure out 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.720 a way to cobble together enough support from enough different 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.920 parties to not lose the next confidence vote the next 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.080 time they try to pass the budget, because even if this, 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.680 if you lose this no confidence motion, the budget bill 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.000 gets rejected and it's really just a portion of the 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.040 budget bill to social security portion of the budget bill. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.320 But nevertheless the budget bill gets rejected. But a future 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.560 government is going to have to pass the budget at 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.560 some point, and so we're going to run through the 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.200 same thing again. How quickly is really unknown. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.840 At this point only thirty seconds left. Allan is President mccrawl. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:36.480 At risk over this, so he cannot be forced to resign. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.080 So the French presidency sort of functions like the American 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.080 presidency does. So he has he's elected for a fixed term. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.280 It's five years in France that runs through early twenty 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.440 twenty seven. So there's some calls already. The left is 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.320 actually long called for mac call to resign. He certainly 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.200 can't be forced to do it. But the question becomes, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.560 if let's say he names another government, and if that 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.880 government has lots of problems, will there will probably be 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.840 increasing calls for you know, okay, we need something to change, 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.480 and maybe that is in MacColl resigning. 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