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00:00:00in France, live on France
00:00:0224,
00:00:07it's 9:30 PM in Paris and it's time for the political
00:00:10essentials.
00:00:15Tonight's political essential is with Richard Verli, good evening, good evening,
00:00:18editorialist and journalist for the Swiss online media Blick. On
00:00:22the program of this issue, international news that impacts the daily lives of
00:00:26French people and the presidential campaign: Russia, war in the
00:00:29Middle East, and soaring fuel prices. Emmanuel Macron
00:00:32gathered the main candidates for his succession on Friday in a serious atmosphere. He
00:00:36will also be on television Thursday at 8 PM with our colleagues from TF1
00:00:40and France 2. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is
00:00:44facing the budget constraints for 2027, with 54 billion
00:00:48euros in efforts to plan for and rising anger. Is a new social
00:00:51and political crisis still avoidable? Finally, can the
00:00:55second round lineup for the presidential election still change? Polls still predict
00:00:59a duel between Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while the left and center
00:01:02are still in a fierce battle to nominate a
00:01:05candidate.
00:01:09Emmanuel Macron therefore gathered the leaders of the main
00:01:13parties at the Elysée on Friday to discuss the international situation, including
00:01:17many candidates for his succession. The French president
00:01:19particularly insisted on the evolution of the Russian threat. He also reminded that the rise
00:01:23in energy and fuel prices was linked to the international context. Let's
00:01:27listen: "Drone intrusions
00:01:30into the airspace of several countries,
00:01:34with real depth in Russian action, show us
00:01:37that no state is safe. So, in the face of this,
00:01:41we act, we act through the mobilization we have
00:01:44decided, mobilization of our zone
00:01:47prefects, mobilization of
00:01:50the entire French system to better protect our
00:01:53most strategic facilities and our industrial and technological defense
00:01:57base, and a collective posture of... great
00:02:00vigilance. We are in a moment of
00:02:02vigilance."
00:02:05Richard, what did Emmanuel Macron seek to do by organizing this meeting
00:02:08with the main party leaders? Was it really to make them
00:02:11responsible, to prevent them from
00:02:14right, welcome to your Africa inflaming the debate themselves? Yes, there was a dimension of
00:02:16warning, a warning to political leaders. Let's
00:02:20the. note that neither Marine Le Pen nor Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the presumed
00:02:24finalists you just mentioned, were at this meeting. They were
00:02:27represented, but Emmanuel Macron wanted to warn political forces and
00:02:31candidates about the situation. He did so in a solemn
00:02:35and, I would say, extremely professional manner, as he was surrounded by the
00:02:38heads of intelligence services, security services, and the
00:02:41army. And if we are to believe the political leaders when they left,
00:02:45they were quite impressed by what they had been told. So,
00:02:48a warning to political forces and through political forces and his
00:02:52intervention before the podium, before the press, after
00:02:55a warning to the French people on the theme: "This is not a
00:02:59period... like any other, and we must deduce that this cannot be an
00:03:03electoral campaign like any other." It is clear that Emmanuel Macron
00:03:06is afraid, afraid that this electoral campaign will spiral out of control,
00:03:10especially since the two extremes are in a strong position in the polls. He
00:03:13fears promises that would be inconsiderate in terms of
00:03:16budget, in terms of security. And Emmanuel Macron does not forget, it must be said,
00:03:20that these two parties, the National Rally and La France
00:03:23Insoumise, are two parties that have long advocated, and even still advocate,
00:03:27appeasement with Russia, a Russia that... he
00:03:30explicitly named. He also attributed part of the responsibility, particularly for
00:03:34fuels, to Donald Trump and to Israel, given the war in Iran. Can
00:03:37we say that the message was well received, since we see that Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, as we will see
00:03:41in their statement on the air, condemned Moscow's hostile
00:03:45acts the very next day? Does that mean that ultimately he managed to create a united front, at least on
00:03:49this issue? Probably this meeting had an
00:03:52effect, once again this warning. It was a clear
00:03:55way of saying and taking the French people
00:03:59as witnesses, by saying, "There are
00:04:03issues on which one cannot be partisan, on which one
00:04:06cannot be demagogic: it is the security of the country." So, after the
00:04:10question we can ask, certainly the National Rally today warns
00:04:14against Russia's hybrid actions, but the entire
00:04:17past of this party proves its
00:04:20desire for appeasement with Moscow, so this is in the party's DNA
00:04:24and it will not disappear during the campaign. This is what Emmanuel Macron
00:04:27will reiterate on Thursday on the set of France 2 and... when he will be
00:04:30interviewed at 8 PM, that the hour is serious. He will undoubtedly say that,
00:04:34he will say it with elements that he will have brought back from this week that he will
00:04:38spend in the United States, a crucial week, I remind you, because
00:04:41President Trump will meet Xi Jinping, will
00:04:46mainly extract meet the Chinese president. So, really, we see that geopolitics is at the
00:04:50heart of the electoral campaign, and then this
00:04:53geopolitics has a direct effect on the
00:04:55would say, I'm rather glad to finances of the French people through fuel. I also think that if he
00:04:58speaks, it's to... reassure, because at the moment we see anxieties emerging,
00:05:02first the anger, like fishermen, like other sectors,
00:05:06but also anxieties about winter, winter in Ukraine and also winter in France, because
00:05:10clearly here in the role of gas and oil will be needed. The international context
00:05:13indeed, and he has the potentially explosive national context. Prime
00:05:17Minister Sébastien Lecornu warned this week that he would ask for
00:05:2054 billion euros in efforts to try to bring the deficit back to 5% of
00:05:24GDP next year. For that, several measures are being considered, and they are
00:05:28particularly unpopular: freezing retirement pensions, freezing civil
00:05:32servant salaries, increasing taxes. A day of demonstrations and strikes
00:05:36is planned in 9 days, on Tuesday, September
00:05:3929th. Is Sébastien Lecornu taking the risk
00:05:42of setting the country on fire to save public
00:05:45accounts? Listen, if the country catches fire because
00:05:49of that, it's still worrying because public accounts are
00:05:53the future of France, it must be said. If you look back a little, you know,
00:05:57I'm a correspondent for a Swiss media, France's public finances
00:06:00cannot continue like this. It has become a
00:06:03precipice. At some point, we have to stop the bleeding. I say
00:06:07"bleeding" because these are terms we read in the international press,
00:06:11in the Financial Times, in the Wall Street Journal, and let's not forget that France
00:06:14continues to
00:06:17how should I say, we continue to lend to France but at rates
00:06:20of 4.5%, which are very high rates that will have to be
00:06:24paid. The debt burden is 70 billion euros per year,
00:06:28which is more than the savings Sébastien Lecornu is considering making. So,
00:06:31I think he's doing the job, we must admit, he's doing the job.
00:06:35Surprisingly, he's asking for 54 billion euros, while François Bayrou, who was
00:06:39fired by the deputies, who was overthrown, only asked for...
00:06:4244 billion. We'll see what Sébastien Lecornu manages to
00:06:46save during the budget discussion. The rumor circulating,
00:06:50which you probably know, is that this budget will probably
00:06:53be adopted by ordinance. So, it will be the government's
00:06:57version that ultimately prevails. Why? Because there is no agreement between the political
00:07:01forces, and because in any case, once the new president is
00:07:04elected, he will have a rectifying finance law. So, in fact, it's a
00:07:07semi-budget. That's where we can still doubt Sébastien Lecornu's
00:07:11promises. These promises will only last until May 2,
00:07:142027, the date the new president takes office. Except that there's what will
00:07:18happen in parliament, and then there's what will happen in the streets. We already started
00:07:22seeing it yesterday in Marseille at the port of Marseille where the Yellow
00:07:26Vests were back. So there were only 200, but should we
00:07:30nevertheless expect an explosive
00:07:33social autumn? Listen, the situation is
00:07:37really nothing like that of the Yellow Vests in the winter of
00:07:392018-2019. The Yellow Vests, first of all,
00:07:43the French people were caught by surprise by this measure of
00:07:4680 km/h plus the increase in diesel prices,
00:07:50and that was the responsibility of the French government, in this case the government
00:07:54of Édouard Philippe, on that subject. And that's undoubtedly what Emmanuel Macron will say
00:07:57on Thursday: it's not France's responsibility for fuel, it's the
00:08:01geopolitical situation and the fact that France, the French people,
00:08:05I think the French people are ready to hear, in any case they have heard it so far, they have still
00:08:09been moderate in their reaction. Of course, what...
00:08:12complicates things is that now it's no longer possible to write checks. Up until
00:08:16now, the government has written a lot of checks, but I would say,
00:08:19if there is a protest to be had, it must take place during the
00:08:23electoral campaign through voting. That's still the purpose of a presidential
00:08:26campaign. So I think will there be Yellow Vests
00:08:30this winter? We cannot rule it out, but the
00:08:33democratic game, at its core, is where protests must
00:08:37be inserted today, because in the midst of all that, there is indeed the race for
00:08:402027. Marine Le Pen and Mélenchon continue to advance in battle
00:08:44formation. On the left, it begins with an internal battle.
00:08:48Five candidates are engaged in the social-democratic primary: Olivier
00:08:51Faure, Jérôme Guedj, Emmanuel Morel, Raphaël Glucksmann, and Ségolène
00:08:55Royal. I would like us to pause for a moment on this
00:08:58candidacy, Ségolène Royal, who already participated in the second round of a
00:09:02presidential election, that was in 2007 against Nicolas Sarkozy. Is her
00:09:06candidacy going to be a bit of a
00:09:09wrench in the works? Is it going to prevent the...
00:09:12announced duel between Olivier Faure and Raphaël Glucksmann? Listen, for
00:09:16now, if we look at the polls, but these polls are difficult because the
00:09:20vote in the socialist primary will bring together activists in the broad
00:09:23sense. I think we're talking about roughly 100,000 voters, 100,000
00:09:26participants. And so it's difficult because there are, I would say,
00:09:30internal party matters specific to the Socialist Party. There is the memory of
00:09:34Ségolène Royal, who was a valiant candidate, it must be said, against
00:09:38Nicolas Sarkozy, and who at the time had been, she had been a candidate at
00:09:41the end of a primary which she had won. So I think
00:09:44what strikes me is that Ségolène Royal has a political
00:09:48record that speaks for her. She has a media image that is, we could say,
00:09:51controversial, but she is in a position to ask the
00:09:55two main candidates, that is, Olivier Faure and
00:09:58Raphaël Glucksmann, the right questions, because deep down she
00:10:02knows what a presidential campaign is, and so I
00:10:08have her in this primary because she will
00:10:10raise the level of the debate. In a way, and we'll see if
00:10:14one of the two candidates will have more difficulty in
00:10:17withstanding the attacks or in any case the onslaught of Ségolène Royal, who is
00:10:23the outsider, the big surprise.
00:10:25would be for her to qualify for the second round since it's a two-round primary. Ségolène
00:10:29Royal, when asked what the difference was between her and Raphaël
00:10:32Glucksmann, she answered "experience" in
00:10:36this interview with Libération. Thank you very much, Richard, for coming to the France
00:10:4024 set for the political essentials. Stay with us, immediately, Fatima
00:10:43Tali takes over for the Africa news and we'll be back right
00:10:46after.
00:11:03Lovana, an RFI talent group,
00:11:16discover Pitiki, the music video of the Franco-Malagasy trio from
00:11:20their first album titled
00:11:22Girou.
00:11:44The doors are opening,
00:11:47it's still incredible how, it's something
00:11:51crazy, it shines within us. It's
00:11:57like you're in another
00:11:58world.
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00:12:0424.
00:12:12Good evening and welcome to Politique. Each
00:12:15week, Roseline Fèvre hosts editorialists and
00:12:18deciphers with them the major political themes that are making headlines. You
00:12:22have noticed that there is a real revolution, it is the French
00:12:25model that is at stake. Politique, your show to watch on France
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00:12:35You are on France 24 and you are
00:12:39news. Headlining tonight, the families of the 37
00:12:42gold panners who died in detention in central Nigeria are demanding
00:12:46justice. The government has appointed an independent commission to conduct
00:12:50the investigation. We will also talk about the start of the
00:12:54school year in Ivory Coast and the heavy cost of
00:12:57schooling children. Report from our correspondents
00:13:01with parents who organize themselves and sometimes have to pay astronomical
00:13:04sums to buy school supplies, books, and other
00:13:08uniforms.
00:13:11And our focus this Sunday evening is on Morocco, 3 days before the
00:13:15legislative elections. Nearly 400 deputies to be elected,
00:13:18new rules to moralize political
00:13:21life, promote women and youth, but behind the ballot...
00:13:25an essential question: what confidence do Moroccans still place
00:13:28in their political representatives? Decryption with political
00:13:32scientist Nadia Hashimi
00:13:34Alaoui.
00:13:38We open this news report by going to central Nigeria, to Mina,
00:13:41where families are demanding explanations and justice
00:13:45after the death of 37 alleged illegal
00:13:48miners while they were detained by the country's
00:13:51civil defense corps. The government has, for its part, appointed an independent
00:13:55commission composed of 10 members to conduct the investigation. Nina
00:13:59Masson.
00:14:01In Mina, in central Nigeria, the streets have
00:14:04returned to calm after several days of violent
00:14:07demonstrations. Last Thursday, in this locality,
00:14:1137 young men were found dead in detention. Their
00:14:14families are now demanding justice.
00:14:18The government is supposed to give us justice. If the government does not take
00:14:21decisive measures, we will continue the protest.
00:14:25The 37 alleged gold panners, suspected of illegal gold
00:14:29extraction, had been arrested by the Nigerian Civil Defense,
00:14:33a paramilitary group that supports the police in ensuring
00:14:36security and protecting sensitive
00:14:38infrastructure. Survivors report having been
00:14:42crammed into overcrowded and poorly
00:14:44ventilated cells. The Nigerian president has ordered a thorough
00:14:48investigation. We want the investigation to determine who gave the orders that led
00:14:52to these deaths. We have suffered a serious injustice.
00:14:56We have been denied justice. The governor has decreed 3 days of mourning and postponed the
00:15:00start of the electoral campaign. The state
00:15:02of Niger, which is twice the size of Belgium, is rich in mineral
00:15:06resources and attracts thousands of artisanal miners who
00:15:11gold.
00:15:13It's back to school in Ivory Coast, and with it, a sometimes heavy
00:15:17bill for families: books, supplies, uniforms. To
00:15:20send their children to school, parents have to pay sometimes several
00:15:24tens of thousands of CFA francs. So, everyone
00:15:27organizes as best they can. The report by Ma Camara, Damien Koffi and Caroline
00:15:31Dumai. Every school year, this single mother
00:15:35preferred to seize the opportunity. She would go to the... ground bookstores and
00:15:39pass her textbooks from one child to another. But with the
00:15:42change in editions, the old books no longer correspond to the
00:15:45new program, which forces her to buy new ones. "You
00:15:49have a little one who's going to 4th grade, another who's doing
00:15:523rd grade. The one who's going to 3rd grade, he has a 4th grade book that's
00:15:56there, you can't give it to the other one. You're forced to
00:15:59buy a new 4th grade book again. That the old ones are there that the child
00:16:03can use, we say we can't anymore. At that moment, it really tires us out."
00:16:07Some... parents find other solutions. HR manager
00:16:10during the day, Francis becomes a VTC driver in the
00:16:13evening and on weekends for a daily salary supplement of
00:16:1725,000 CFA francs. "It's back to school to
00:16:20be able to send the children to school, the supplies, all
00:16:23that. That's why I got into VTCs to
00:16:27earn a second income. We can't rely on just one income,
00:16:31so with this one as a supplement, the children
00:16:34can go to school peacefully." When the expenses of...
00:16:47who turned to her town hall for her son, met the director of socio-cultural services to request support for my son
00:16:50who just got his BPC.
00:16:53The institution he was assigned to and the costs are
00:16:57really high for me as a student's parent. The town hall
00:17:01of Treichville indicates that it has implemented support mechanisms
00:17:05for certain families.
00:17:07"We have nearly 4,000 children who are assisted with school
00:17:11kits, we have nearly 5,000 children who are assisted, we
00:17:14try to help parents so that parents can be less stressed, so that the children
00:17:18themselves work towards excellence." Faced with criticism on social
00:17:22media, the state has promised the standardization of school
00:17:25books, but also a textbook exchange program with a
00:17:28pre-rental formula to relieve
00:17:30families.
00:17:33Let's move on to our focus this Sunday evening and look at the
00:17:36elections in Morocco. Moroccans are called to the polls this
00:17:40Wednesday, September 23, to renew the 395
00:17:43seats of the House of Representatives. An
00:17:47election organized with new rules, more control over
00:17:50candidacies, funding, but also measures in
00:17:54favor of women and youth. But beyond these reforms, there are the
00:17:57concerns of Moroccans: purchasing power, employment,
00:18:01education, health, and inequalities, and above all, one question: do voters
00:18:04still believe in the ability of political parties to change
00:18:08their daily lives? To discuss this, we welcome Nadia
00:18:12Hashimi Alaoui, professor of political science affiliated with
00:18:15the International University of Rabat. Thank you and
00:18:18welcome to the show! So, what is
00:18:22the issue for us, for the viewers, what is the main
00:18:25issue of these legislative elections in
00:18:27Morocco?
00:18:29Well, the issue, uh, it needs to be put in context. Often, when we talk about
00:18:33elections and, uh, we have in mind the big ones, the
00:18:36meaning. When the elections, uh, for example, in France
00:18:40twenty-four, in France, uh, in Morocco,
00:18:43the issue is not taking power. The political
00:18:47issue of these legislative elections, uh, is to be who will lead a
00:18:51head of government, a new government. The issue is to be able to
00:18:54participate in political decision-making, rather than taking
00:18:57power, participating in political decision-making, participating in the big
00:19:01arbitrations that will take place,
00:19:04uh, within the framework of a political project that...
00:19:07is often, is, let's say, already defined, which is not defined
00:19:11simply by the government and the parliament. So the issue is participation
00:19:14both in decision-making and in the
00:19:18redistribution of resources
00:19:21and the definition of public policies. So, in what
00:19:25you said, obviously there is the issue of participating,
00:19:29uh, and of this decision-making. There is also behind that the
00:19:33question of among the political parties,
00:19:36uh, some... cause, I would schematize, but in any case more fear than
00:19:40others in that, in that, in that. Can you
00:19:44explain exactly? Well, fear, I don't know, there has been
00:19:47uh, let's say that today you have a fairly fragmented partisan scene
00:19:51but which is organized
00:19:54around four major parties: the three parties of the current
00:19:57governmental coalition, and then we are seeing a
00:20:01resurgence, uh, at least
00:20:04in the discourse of the PJD, which was president,
00:20:07which is the Islamist party, but which has already been in power for 10
00:20:11years. And then you have the Moroccan left, which has been quite
00:20:14weakened, not the Socialist Party USFP
00:20:18and the small left-wing parties, but
00:20:22uh, so the parties don't cause fear, because what
00:20:25is playing out, in fact, is the first place
00:20:29at the end of the election with three major, three
00:20:32major parties that have already been in government, and as I was telling
00:20:36you, uh, Islamists that we had, who at the
00:20:40last legislative elections in the last
00:20:43legislative elections had been ousted
00:20:45by the ballot box, had suffered
00:20:49a... a significant defeat, and who
00:20:52today, or in any case, that's perhaps the question, but I wouldn't speak
00:20:56of fear, much more of, you know, elections in Morocco have become
00:21:00institutionalized, let's say, in the landscape, uh, it's no longer the
00:21:03issues themselves that cause fear, perhaps, it's the
00:21:07participation rate, but we can talk about that later. Do Moroccans,
00:21:10do Moroccans even still have confidence
00:21:14in political parties?
00:21:17Well, the crisis of confidence in political parties is
00:21:20old in Morocco, uh, it's, uh,
00:21:24since, let's say, the turn of the 2000s,
00:21:27the first major legislative elections we had in the new reign in
00:21:312002, the question was already being asked
00:21:34about uh, well, the crisis of
00:21:37confidence in political parties, political parties that were unable to renew themselves. 20 years later,
00:21:41it's the same thing, only worse,
00:21:44uh, it's not unique to Morocco, you see to what extent
00:21:47everywhere you mentioned in the news about... the distrust we have towards political
00:21:51parties, uh, but indeed
00:21:55there is a significant distrust towards
00:21:58a political class uh, which at the same
00:22:02time struggles to broaden its ranks, which struggles to open its
00:22:05partisan structures, but which
00:22:08also, not only struggles to renew itself,
00:22:11but to which, ultimately, we also leave very little
00:22:14room. I mentioned earlier about the
00:22:17significance of elections, which are about taking power. You know, the big
00:22:21political stakes, the big, the big
00:22:25public policies are almost already on
00:22:28track. So this distrust,
00:22:32added to the fact that the stakes uh and that the
00:22:35question about the
00:22:38significance or the real weight contributes to
00:22:41fostering a kind of disinterest and distrust. So these
00:22:44elections, can they really help, for example, to renew the political
00:22:48class? I am thinking of women. We saw that there were changes in the rules
00:22:52for allocation, women, young people. We remember that we are
00:22:56a few days away from the 1st anniversary of numerous demonstrations by Generation
00:22:59Z. Uh, what will remain
00:23:02of all this
00:23:04uh?
00:23:06Well, we often tend to say that after two
00:23:10weeks will have forgotten the elections in Morocco because what will be at stake is more or
00:23:14less the coalition that will come to power and what
00:23:17it will form Let's stay on
00:23:21you were talking about young people and women, on the question of women, there is a
00:23:25list of women, in Morocco, a bit like what
00:23:28was done in France to
00:23:32really open up politics,
00:23:35to open up politics to women, effectively forced the issue with the question of national lists, it
00:23:39will be a regional list where you have a list of
00:23:43women, so that is a way to
00:23:46indeed increase participation, especially in the
00:23:50parliament, that is a fairly classic mechanism, regarding
00:23:54young people, that is more complicated, and
00:23:57that is one of the central problems,
00:24:00that is, how can you, there is currently no
00:24:04political party that has managed to capture
00:24:08what we have seen throughout the year, that is, a
00:24:11demand for social demands expressed by
00:24:15Moroccan youth and which cannot be translated or expressed
00:24:19politically. and even less within political parties, and that
00:24:22is extremely problematic, and it is all the more an issue that we have
00:24:26seen frightening images of all these young people
00:24:30assaulting Spain, who left
00:24:33uh uh precisely for the enclave
00:24:36of Ceuta, is it precisely
00:24:38uh will anything remain of it, I use
00:24:42that term, but for political leaders to know
00:24:46how to address these
00:24:49young people and... what can be done to keep them ultimately on Moroccan soil?
00:24:53So two things, I would take you back on the
00:24:56terms, these frightening images, this
00:24:59assault, well, that's what has been said a lot.
00:25:03the terminology used. What we can say already is, I would say first of all, these dramatic
00:25:06images and which raise questions both
00:25:10about Morocco and also about
00:25:13international
00:25:14migration
00:25:17policies. So that's one thing, and I'm not saying it
00:25:21simply to highlight the semantic dimension,
00:25:25but also because these images
00:25:29uh we still don't have an answer
00:25:32to what they convey, I mean, we don't have explanations. It would be
00:25:36a bit reductive to say already "these
00:25:40young people" because there weren't only young people, as we saw in
00:25:43testimonies.
00:25:45Indeed, there were many young people, but that wasn't all.
00:25:48Uh the profiles we can see are extremely
00:25:51diversified and heterogeneous. You had people who had jobs, others who didn't,
00:25:55and without in any way
00:25:58minimizing it, on the contrary, it's rather a situation that raises questions and that
00:26:02not only raises questions but means that today it disarms us, we have no answer,
00:26:06it reflects a deep
00:26:08crisis which is not just an economic
00:26:12or a social crisis, which is a
00:26:16largely structural crisis, of the transformations that
00:26:19Moroccan political society is undergoing and of which we unfortunately
00:26:22have little knowledge, we are sorely
00:26:26lacking, but really sorely lacking
00:26:29in socio-economic studies on the
00:26:32transformation of Morocco, apart from a few snippets that we can
00:26:36get, but generally speaking, we
00:26:39are facing a deficit of knowledge
00:26:43about what is happening, the
00:26:46consequences of a society that
00:26:49is demographically transformed,
00:26:52a transformation that is economically, and even
00:26:56territorially, you have
00:26:59an accelerated normalization.
00:27:03Yeah, exactly, so just to tell you that it is indeed a
00:27:06silence, no one is talking about it in the campaign, but I think that this silence
00:27:10should also be seen in parallel with the fact of a
00:27:13kind of disoriented society, I
00:27:16will keep that word, absolutely. Thank you very much, Nadia Ashimi Halawi, this
00:27:20is the end of this Africa news broadcast. Thank you for staying with us as the news
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