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00:00We can now cross in fact to get some of the international reaction and Italy's far-right
00:05leader Giorgio Maloney perhaps hoping for a far-right victory here even though of course
00:10let's not forget that the far-right blocs do not work together in the European Parliament.
00:15We're going to talk to our correspondent Seema Gupta who joins us now from Rome.
00:19Seema give us an update then what's the reaction from there in Rome?
00:23Well here in Italy waking up to this news was a big surprise last night,
00:30big surprise again this morning. As you can imagine all the papers here are dominating
00:35the news. You have the Milan-based Corriere della Sera newspaper here, the headline
00:40France has gone to the left, Le Pen has been defeated, saying very clearly there below that
00:46Macron is taking his time. And then you have the left-leaning Rome-based La Repubblica daily
00:53saying it's a French revolution, Revoluzione Francese, also mentioning the fact that Maloney
01:00is now perhaps a little bit more alone in Europe as she could have been hoping as she had said
01:07for a right victory. Then you have La Stampa, the Turin-based daily talking about how Le Pen
01:13has been pushed back and how there is chaos perhaps in France. The right-wing dailies of
01:20course Il Giornale here talking about the flop of Le Pen and Macron being in prison now is how
01:27they're describing it, saying that Paris is now drowning in a swamp, the risk of a government
01:34that's impossible. The other right-wing daily Libero play on words here talking about Que Bordel,
01:42a complete mess. Macron has thrown the country into chaos, it says. Le Pen has been taken over
01:48by the extreme left and no one is in the majority. So clearly the papers here taking the side of the
01:54left and the right, we haven't really heard from the far right to date, particularly Matteo Salvini,
02:00Le Pen's ally here in Italy has been silent since the results have come out. We haven't heard from
02:06the Prime Minister either but the centre-right Forza Italia party, the party of former Prime
02:11Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is in government, some representatives there saying how the left
02:19wins clearly because there is no strong centre-right. So we've heard from them,
02:24the left-leaning parties, the Democratic Party here in Italy of course celebrating this,
02:29saying it's an extraordinary result for a united left, showing that the right can be beaten. Now
02:35some people of course drawing comparisons if you like to two years ago when we saw Meloni come to
02:41power in this coalition of the right and saying how here in Italy the left really couldn't unite
02:47as compared to what we saw in France in the result of yesterday. But also of course talking about the
02:56perhaps the economic and political turmoil that is to come right now as there's no clear idea of
03:02what comes next in France.