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[00:00:14] in France, the CGT counts 250 protesters at
[00:00:18] midday, this Thursday could be the
[00:00:20] that a marker, would you say, highlight of this social autumn, the parades are underway in
[00:00:23] Paris, you can see it live here, purchasing power remains the main
[00:00:26] subject, we'll find Mary Shuster in a moment, how does
[00:00:30] this anger resonate beyond our borders, in other European
[00:00:33] countries, Gen Z has also spoken out in recent weeks,
[00:00:37] can we draw parallels, particularly with the situation in Italy, Q&A
[00:00:41] with a journalist who knows Rome as well as Paris, Alberto Toscano, hello
[00:00:44] Alberto, hello, we'll also come back to these mysterious bomb alerts, they
[00:00:48] always concern planes flying over Europe, there have been many
[00:00:52] pose a problem that goes beyond since the beginning of the week, several planes were diverted this
[00:00:56] Thursday.
[00:00:58] exit, he had left the CLSAO That's the main news. And we'll also
[00:01:01] come back to the Youth Olympic Games in our Africa segment at 3:30 p.m.
[00:01:04] For the first time, a refugee team has formed and is participating in the
[00:01:08] competition, we met
[00:01:26] Streets and squares packed with people, it's a day of protest.
[00:01:30] Whether from the public or private sector, French workers are called to strike
[00:01:33] today, a very welcome relay for students and
[00:01:36] high school students who have been leading the movement almost since the start of the school year, you
[00:01:40] see here these
[00:01:43] meaning the sign of images of Paris, Marie Chuster, you are in the
[00:01:46] procession right in the heart of the action, a procession that must
[00:01:49] link Place de la République to Place de la Nation, you are on Boulevard
[00:01:53] Voltaire, there is determination on site and it's
[00:01:56] rather calm for now.
[00:02:01] stop yes indeed Julien, a rather good-natured atmosphere
[00:02:05] since the beginning of this demonstration, we see a lot
[00:02:08] of orchestras that create the atmosphere, who sing
[00:02:11] and everyone sings along at the top of their lungs in this procession,
[00:02:15] this mobilization is very well followed, in this procession we find a lot of private sector employees
[00:02:19] but also public sector employees, it's a call for a general
[00:02:22] strike also for the public sector, also for
[00:02:24] national education, and in fact I found in the procession, well,
[00:02:28] Marianne. Rossie, who is a history teacher
[00:02:32] at Voltaire high school in the 11th arrondissement in Paris,
[00:02:35] exactly, could you explain to me the
[00:02:38] importance of today's mobilization, why are you here today? Well,
[00:02:42] I'm here because first of all it's an inter-union and
[00:02:45] inter-professional call for employment, for
[00:02:48] salaries and in support of youth, because young people, high school students
[00:02:52] and university students, they have the same demands as us, quality public
[00:02:56] education, and we are also here for public services.
[00:03:00] Public hospitals, like education, need resources to
[00:03:03] prepare the future for our young people, so we are here, we are
[00:03:06] supporting them, but we also have
[00:03:10] problems of managing demands on salaries, which are also shared by our students since they say we need to be better
[00:03:14] paid, so we are here at the
[00:03:17] high school, we are in an inter- well, a complete inter-union,
[00:03:21] many of us are on strike today and this morning we were in front of the high school
[00:03:25] supporting the students and trying to act as a, let's say,
[00:03:29] buffer between the... law enforcement and our students
[00:03:32] who chose the blockade as a mode of mobilization, yes, because you told me
[00:03:35] that indeed this morning in front of your high school there were some scuffles
[00:03:39] between your students and the police, could you tell me what happened? Well,
[00:03:43] for several weeks
[00:03:46] France is going through as the it happens that the forces that it is tense between high school students and law enforcement, especially when high
[00:03:50] school students move forward to block the high school, there are exchanges
[00:03:53] around the trash cans, sometimes so there were also uh, we can
[00:03:57] say, there were police charges or students were beaten
[00:04:01] to the ground, today, a student was thrown to
[00:04:04] the ground by a plainclothes police officer, so there you go, it's often
[00:04:08] a kind of of, let's say,
[00:04:11] a bit of organized chaos by the police, I could say, and
[00:04:15] there you go, it's not escalations every time, so there you go, it's getting
[00:04:18] heated, but we're here to intervene, to
[00:04:21] avoid, there you go, to avoid detentions, to avoid
[00:04:24] obviously that our students are brutalized,
[00:04:28] are insulted, that... happens and are also
[00:04:31] searched, searched,
[00:04:38] A Rafale then a Mirage 2000 from escorted by air force searches that are quite surprising, as happened 2 days ago where some students were frisked, I would say it's
[00:04:41] it's, well, it's frisks on minors
[00:04:44] that, I would say, are of, well, of something
[00:04:48] that could be for, finally, for which they could be
[00:04:52] given on the origin of and the scale of prosecuted, thank you very much Marianne, so you see, if the
[00:04:54] atmosphere was quite tense this morning in front of this high school in the 11th
[00:04:58] arrondissement, it is nothing like that currently in the heart of this procession, in the heart
[00:05:02] of this demonstration boulevard,
[00:05:05] Boulevard Voltaire pardon in Paris, despite
[00:05:08] a large security deployment, you can probably
[00:05:11] hear them. The helicopters circling above this
[00:05:15] demonstration since this morning, thank you very much
[00:05:18] Marie Schluster, thanks also to Valentine Herba for the technical
[00:05:22] means, at the heart of the demands, salaries,
[00:05:24] purchasing power, for many French people, the feeling of no longer
[00:05:28] being able to live properly from their work remains, this is not just a
[00:05:31] feeling, poverty is at its highest level in 30 years in the
[00:05:35] country, see this report in Lyon by Étienne Prijan and Margerie
[00:05:38] Nadal.
[00:05:42] Ecologist high school student, social, on the placards, there's also
[00:05:46] a lot of talk about purchasing power, cost of living, this
[00:05:49] mother, for example, came to protest, receives RSA,
[00:05:53] inflation hit me hard, even kosher food has become a great
[00:05:56] luxury, and at some point it's very easy to increase
[00:06:00] product prices, but VAT also increases, I'm doing financial
[00:06:04] acrobatics, electricity will soon
[00:06:07] be reduced, it's...
[00:06:11] meals we've skipped with the kids,
[00:06:14] I've lost count, slogans to
[00:06:18] demand an increase in the minimum wage, retirement pensions. Laurent Jacquet
[00:06:22] is 61 years old, a former employee in collective catering, he
[00:06:25] earns 1600 euros net per month and pays 700 euros in rent. I
[00:06:29] manage, but it's not easy every day, every day and every month, because
[00:06:32] when you want to go out once or twice a month, you're
[00:06:35] quickly affected, so after 43 years, well, I know
[00:06:39] it was collective catering, but I find that...
[00:06:43] Limiting oneself to essentials is also the case for Ingrid Godin, who calls for
[00:06:46] more tax justice,
[00:06:50] 200 euros per month, in my opinion, it's not enough compared to
[00:06:53] the involvement it represents, we need to increase salaries, yes, without reducing
[00:06:57] social contributions because that's still what ensures us a
[00:07:00] system that allows us to get healthcare and for retirees
[00:07:04] to have a decent income, which is not the case for everyone, what is the
[00:07:07] solution, rich, tax justice, the truly
[00:07:11] rich. According to the latest Ipsos barometer for Secours
[00:07:14] Populaire, 26% of French people, or a little over a quarter of the
[00:07:18] population, consider themselves to be in a precarious
[00:07:20] situation. So how are these demonstrations viewed abroad,
[00:07:24] can they create a snowball effect while young
[00:07:27] Europeans have also been protesting for several weeks? We're going to ask these questions with
[00:07:31] our guest Alberto Toscano, Italian journalist, it's been
[00:07:34] 40 years that you've been following and covering
[00:07:38] the news in France, so you've known the big social
[00:07:41] events, the big strikes of '95
[00:07:45] under Juppé, the CPE under de Villepin, what else was
[00:07:48] there, the pension reform too, the pension
[00:07:52] reforms, do you feel that we are on another
[00:07:55] bad mood of the French or is it a more
[00:07:59] profound movement? It is undoubtedly
[00:08:02] a profound movement in the sense that
[00:08:05] uh we see the difficulties on the
[00:08:09] ground of the cost of living, so it's a...
[00:08:12] society that is questioning very real problems
[00:08:16] at the same time among these very
[00:08:19] real problems there are not the
[00:08:22] public finances, that is to say we act as if France
[00:08:26] on this front had its accounts in order and
[00:08:30] there, on the other hand, there are difficulties, but then you hear the protesters, they say
[00:08:33] well we need to tax the rich, it's not even, it's not even a debate, it's
[00:08:37] it's a slogan, behind the slogans we need
[00:08:40] policies and the problems. The current France cannot
[00:08:44] envisage coherent policies because it does not have a
[00:08:48] parliamentary majority and a country where the government does not have a
[00:08:51] majority has difficulty envisaging the future. As
[00:08:55] for the first part of your question,
[00:08:58] the difference compared to other social
[00:09:02] shocks I've seen in 40 years since I've been a correspondent in
[00:09:06] Paris and the difference in my opinion is also the fact that
[00:09:09] this time there is no reform. Yes, presumed
[00:09:13] reform that the government can withdraw and yes because
[00:09:17] we are in a particular context at the end of a mandate with a
[00:09:21] government that is minority, does that mean
[00:09:24] that the current government will not be able to offer anything to
[00:09:27] these demonstrations and that we are in for 5 or 6 months
[00:09:31] of demands, can Emmanuel Macron
[00:09:34] hold on? One would have to ask Emmanuel
[00:09:37] Macron if he wants to
[00:09:40] hold on, I think that at this point... he wants to hold on, he
[00:09:44] wants to see it through, but the
[00:09:47] coming months in France will be
[00:09:50] characterized by social tensions, it's
[00:09:54] a fairly easy prophecy to make, the
[00:09:57] problem is that we must hope that this social tension does not
[00:10:00] cross a red line that could
[00:10:03] effectively create a, that would
[00:10:06] end up in the pre-election atmosphere and create a
[00:10:09] situation of tension or difficult to
[00:10:13] control, so we must hope that everything remains,
[00:10:16] despite the current tension, that the red
[00:10:20] line is not crossed, what does the
[00:10:23] Italian experience show, which...
[00:10:25] has often sometimes been on the brink of economic
[00:10:28] collapse, have Italians
[00:10:32] resigned themselves to sacrifices? Italians are making
[00:10:35] sacrifices, the finance law that the Italian
[00:10:38] government will present to
[00:10:41] parliament, which will be approved with
[00:10:44] pain and which is extremely criticized by
[00:10:47] the left opposition, this finance law is a
[00:10:51] set of sacrifices and to
[00:10:54] say... one thing,
[00:10:57] the Italian budget would be
[00:11:00] in surplus if it did not have debt
[00:11:04] servicing, Italy has a
[00:11:07] primary surplus, a positive primary balance,
[00:11:10] with what sacrifices, the
[00:11:12] sacrifices,
[00:11:18] Italians are preparing to go beyond
[00:11:22] 67 years old, it will be 67 and a
[00:11:25] quarter to have full
[00:11:29] retirement uh
[00:11:31] obviously there is a combination with the years of work,
[00:11:35] but the full retirement age will normally be 67 and a quarter and
[00:11:38] this reform, this pension reform, passed like
[00:11:42] a breeze in Italy, no, there were protests, protests,
[00:11:46] but public opinion
[00:11:49] uh following the work of
[00:11:52] persuasion and the work uh and the
[00:11:55] and the dangers that characterized the government of Mario Monti
[00:11:59] a few years ago, a technocratic government, a
[00:12:03] government that also benefited from left-wing
[00:12:06] support as well as right-wing support, so the
[00:12:09] government of Mario Monti painfully carried out this
[00:12:13] difficult pension reform and
[00:12:16] so Italians are making sacrifices, they will
[00:12:20] make them, they have a public debt
[00:12:23] uh which is... just under
[00:12:26] 140% of GDP compared to
[00:12:29] around 120% in France, so in
[00:12:33] relation to GDP, the debt but at the cost of precarity,
[00:12:37] Italians must work more, they have a
[00:12:40] lower salary, precarity, I would say no in the sense that unemployment
[00:12:43] today in Italy is
[00:12:46] significantly more uh reduced than in
[00:12:50] France, uh lower than in
[00:12:52] France. So, there are salaries,
[00:12:56] there are sacrifices on salary, on
[00:12:59] taxation which has increased and
[00:13:02] on retirement, there are sacrifices, but
[00:13:06] in terms of work, of employment,
[00:13:09] today unemployment in Italy
[00:13:12] is lower than in France, we're going to look at these images in Italy, Alberto Toscano, on October
[00:13:16] 17th, France experienced a day in hell with looting and
[00:13:20] violence, there you go, and then in Italy it was the
[00:13:23] same black day. Especially in Milan with
[00:13:27] destruction in especially in luxury
[00:13:30] stores, uh and Giorgia Meloni I believe sent
[00:13:34] in the military, yes, what does this day say
[00:13:37] in your opinion, can we draw a parallel with France? Ah, Italians copied
[00:13:41] France, in terms of demonstrations, Italians
[00:13:45] for centuries copied
[00:13:47] France, so once again, Italian public opinion
[00:13:51] was extremely sensitive to what was happening in France.
[00:13:55] There was the October 17th movement, these are mainly
[00:13:58] young people, students and demonstrations
[00:14:02] in Milan and there were
[00:14:06] tensions and behind these tensions there was
[00:14:09] an opportunity to reflect on phenomena that Italy
[00:14:13] had not reflected on until today, so
[00:14:16] uh the phenomenon of integration
[00:14:20] and the anger of immigrants
[00:14:23] of uh... 2nd generation, 2nd, 3rd
[00:14:27] generation, the children of immigrants who
[00:14:30] today rediscover anger, the suburbs,
[00:14:34] what was in France, the suburban revolt of 2005,
[00:14:37] 2006, what was in France, the incidents after
[00:14:41] the death of Nahel 3 years ago, this
[00:14:44] phenomenon of protest that results
[00:14:47] in a problem of failed integration
[00:14:51] or difficulties, there were starting points, there were starting points,
[00:14:54] the death of Nahel, the riots, it's because two young
[00:14:58] people were chased by the police and were electrocuted, it's not integration
[00:15:02] problems, but it was the
[00:15:04] catalyst, the death was the spark that
[00:15:08] revealed a deep-seated anger that exists in
[00:15:12] the French suburbs in 2005
[00:15:16] the revolt of late 2005 was
[00:15:19] such that it revealed not only a
[00:15:22] protest about a specific
[00:15:26] event, the specific events were the
[00:15:30] trigger for a protest that had much deeper
[00:15:33] roots, let's return to the situation in Italy, we sometimes
[00:15:37] talk about Gen Z, the Gaza generation in Italy,
[00:15:40] with strong support for Palestinians, exactly.
[00:15:43] Of course, they support the Palestinians, the Gazans, in the face of
[00:15:46] the atrocities of the Israeli army during this war which has
[00:15:50] escalated but which sometimes continues with
[00:15:53] bombardments. Is
[00:15:57] of youth, of the demands? What is a flag? It's a
[00:16:00] flag that once again allows
[00:16:04] the protest that is particular. Because
[00:16:07] as I said earlier, it's a protest that also
[00:16:10] reveals, not only, but also the anger
[00:16:14] of immigrants, of the children of immigrants,
[00:16:17] and the Palestinian flag has become the flag of these
[00:16:21] demonstrations and of this anger, so and in
[00:16:25] Italy, undoubtedly these demonstrations
[00:16:30] public order. In terms of the republic, there was what you
[00:16:33] said earlier, the choice of the George Melloni government to use...
[00:16:37] these 500 soldiers in the city of Milan, in
[00:16:41] France, we talked about that as a huge phenomenon, but
[00:16:45] in the French streets, for years there has been the
[00:16:48] Sentinel device that employs soldiers with
[00:16:52] functions that today, in the context of these
[00:16:56] demonstrations, are also public order functions, so I
[00:16:59] I believe we should not exaggerate this element of the
[00:17:03] military presence uh in
[00:17:06] Milan. But it is still
[00:17:09] once again a revealing fact
[00:17:12] that the defense of public order in Italy today is a
[00:17:16] difficult problem
[00:17:18] to achieve, difficult to solve
[00:17:22] because the scale of the demonstrations and of the anger has really become
[00:17:26] remarkable. Thank you Alberto Toscano for giving us your
[00:17:29] perspective, not Franco-Italian, but well,
[00:17:33] you know European exactly about these
[00:17:36] events, thank you again.
[00:17:38] This day is of course closely scrutinized by the French executive who could make a gesture regarding
[00:17:42] the minimum wage, its revaluation on January 1st could be moved up to December
[00:17:46] 1st and to that would be added a boost, we don't know the extent
[00:17:49] especially since the 2027 budget is still in limbo, deputies rejected the
[00:17:53] text yesterday Julien Ellion
[00:17:56] at the National Assembly, the government suffers a first setback for its
[00:17:59] 2027 budget, 0 for,
[00:18:03] 458 against, the assembly did not adopt.
[00:18:07] Unanimously, after more than 2 weeks of debate, the deputies
[00:18:11] reject the revenue part of the 2027 budget project, this result
[00:18:14] is not a surprise for the executive, before the vote, the
[00:18:18] Minister of Public Accounts reiterated with determination his objectives, we
[00:18:21] will be mobilized with the entire government and under the authority of the
[00:18:25] Prime Minister, to give France what it needs, what the French
[00:18:29] need, what employees and business leaders need,
[00:18:32] that is economic stability, financial stability and therefore
[00:18:36] the reduction of the public deficit. The bill now continues its journey
[00:18:39] to the Senate, in the absence of a majority and compromise with the
[00:18:43] opposition, the government could have the budget adopted without
[00:18:46] a vote by the end of the month, for that, it has several
[00:18:49] tools. We have two safety nets that exist,
[00:18:53] Article 49/3 and Article 47
[00:18:56] on the possible application of ordinances, a priori, that's not
[00:18:59] our objective, but if we have to use the safety nets, we will
[00:19:03] obviously do so. Last year, the budget was adopted thanks to 49.
[00:19:08] The government had escaped several motions of no confidence.
[00:19:12] What is happening in the European sky? For 3 days, traffic has been disrupted due
[00:19:15] to false bomb alerts. 12, just this morning. In fact,
[00:19:19] several planes even had to be diverted. This is the case of an
[00:19:22] A320 Dublin-Rome that had to make an emergency landing in Normandy. Manon
[00:19:26] Bougo and Audi Longuvalle.
[00:19:29] The passengers on this plane were supposed to land in Rome. Here
[00:19:33] they are on the tarmac of the military base in Evreux.
[00:19:36] The aircraft was diverted this morning due to a
[00:19:40] bomb threat, we divert the plane to the nearest
[00:19:44] suitable airport, in this case it was the Evreux airport, which
[00:19:48] is a military airport, once the plane is on the ground, well, we
[00:19:51] call in bomb disposal operators. On
[00:19:54] board, there were 151 passengers and six
[00:19:57] crew members, it was almost 8 am this morning when their
[00:20:01] airliner, an A320 of the Aer Lingus company, took off from
[00:20:04] Dublin, heading for Rome, but after an hour of flight, the aircraft changed
[00:20:08] trajectory, it was then
[00:20:11] pilots.
[00:20:15] the Air and Space Force thus took off to intercept
[00:20:19] this civil aircraft in the Paris sector, then to
[00:20:23] escort it to Air Base 105 of Evreux-Fauville. For
[00:20:26] now, no information has been
[00:20:29] the alert. This is not the only plane that was targeted this morning by a bomb
[00:20:33] threat, there were at least 11 others and last Tuesday...
[00:20:50] For what purpose each time, the planes are
[00:20:53] searched and no suspicious device has been found
[00:20:56] so far.
[00:20:58] Consultations continue more than a week after the election in Israel. This morning, President
[00:21:02] Herzog received a delegation from the United Torah
[00:21:06] Judaism party, an ultra-orthodox formation that this time refuses
[00:21:09] to join Netanyahu. This is very bad news for the outgoing Prime Minister,
[00:21:13] who reiterates his accusations of foreign interference that would have
[00:21:16] favored the Arab parties. For his part, Gadier.
[00:21:20] already believes it, moreover, the main
[00:21:23] Arab list announces support for Gantz to form the next
[00:24:13] in danger, you who were a factory
[00:24:16] worker, son of a worker, socialist activist"?
[00:24:20] Communist, communist, anarchist afterwards, we'll get to that,
[00:24:23] Stéphanois, you who have spent your life crossing
[00:24:27] borders, singing about métissage, Bernard Lavillier, what
[00:24:30] is your view on the political and social crisis that
[00:24:36] presidential election approaches next year, it's a big
[00:24:39] logic, huh, it's a series of events with a kind of
[00:24:42] letting go, they are no longer even technocrats, they are the little marquises who
[00:24:46] took power, they took anyway the... the goal
[00:24:50] of a president in a competition
[00:24:53] that I mean, the goal in elections is
[00:24:57] still to win, so afterwards he can promise whatever he wants, the
[00:25:00] population doesn't give a damn about it in reality, for me, I think that
[00:25:04] knowing others of all colors has given me the
[00:25:08] advantage of being able to decode even
[00:25:11] my brothers and sisters here because what
[00:25:14] they lack is no need to reduce oneself to a
[00:25:17] community, it becomes extremely bizarre. To think
[00:25:20] all the same thing at the same time, I prefer
[00:25:23] absolute diversity, that is to say the possibility of
[00:25:26] arguing because we don't agree, but did you expect such a level of violence
[00:25:30] in French
[00:25:31] society? It goes
[00:25:35] with uh how can I explain it, the
[00:25:39] contempt or ignorance of letting conflicts or
[00:25:43] demands simply rot for
[00:25:45] months, he has a side of the end of the marquise too, it's a bit
[00:25:49] over for the... so I'm talking about the marquises who are in
[00:25:53] power for now, I made a song called beautiful
[00:25:56] days, beautiful days, I
[00:25:59] talk about them being well dressed, all out. of their
[00:26:02] boxes, but they have no idea how to lead anything
[00:26:06] whatsoever.
[00:26:08] B: The president is on edge, and despite
[00:26:12] everything, he lies, denies,
[00:26:14] brazenly,
[00:26:17] they get tired, they run away, they annoy us, they
[00:26:21] confine us,
[00:26:25] let's talk about poetry because politicians for now tend
[00:26:29] to exasperate me, what
[00:26:31] memory? What value do you keep of your work in the
[00:26:34] factory, the value of direct
[00:26:38] labor, the fact of being a good worker, that
[00:26:41] followed me all the time, I used it later when traveling,
[00:26:45] I sometimes continued to work as a turner in foreign countries,
[00:26:49] so I think that the very
[00:26:51] idea of starting to work at 16 in a
[00:26:55] factory, you see, retirement for me
[00:26:58] is not for right away for now, but in any case I
[00:27:02] think that gives a certain pride,
[00:27:05] on the other hand, the army was out of the question, no, no, no, oh, surely
[00:27:09] not, and no, no, no,
[00:27:12] no, no, no, I didn't want to be in the army because no
[00:27:16] god, no master, no foreman, so there you go, I was like that at the time, and I
[00:27:20] still am a bit, you still have no god, no master,
[00:27:23] isn't that a bit utopian today, this
[00:27:26] motto, well I mean, until now, no one
[00:27:29] has presented me with God, so if you want, I should have
[00:27:32] believed, I being independent, I have
[00:27:36] managed to live up to 80 years without passing through
[00:27:39] God, and maybe I will die in a few
[00:27:42] years without passing through God, I will see afterwards no
[00:27:46] doubt, but I won't be able to tell you, Bernard
[00:27:50] Lavillier on France 24, a short break in our world tour, we'll meet again in 2 minutes for the
[00:27:53] Africa
[00:27:54] meeting.
[00:28:04] I was told not long ago that I could do the JOG, the Gio
[00:28:08] is crazy, we are of course aiming for a medal, we try
[00:28:12] to go for the medals, if possible the gold medal, I am
[00:28:14] capable,
[00:28:17] I hope the work will pay off, I do it every day, you always have
[00:28:20] to repeat, repeat, three training sessions per week until you
[00:28:24] master it thoroughly,
[00:28:26] she is a competitor, she has a killer look, she is a real
[00:28:30] lion, ready to devour everything in front of her, I didn't think I would do
[00:28:34] people one day, it's true that it seems crazy, the Youth Olympic Games in
[00:28:38] Dakar on France 24 and all our social networks.
[00:30:26] 24 hours after the municipal elections, the big meeting before the general
[00:30:29] elections of 2029, first information. The
[00:30:32] participation, more than one in two voters turned out. We find
[00:30:36] Caroline Dumé in one of the results centers in
[00:30:39] Cape Town.
[00:30:43] The only definitive figure we have for now is that of participation.
[00:30:46] 54.5% of the votes, a better figure than in
[00:30:50] 2021. At this stage, with less than
[00:30:54] half of the ballots counted, the ANC remains the largest party in the
[00:30:57] country with more than 32%.