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00:00How long ago the parliamentary elections seem for the disillusioned residents of this tiny
00:05French hamlet.
00:07Its less than 100 inhabitants voted unanimously for the New Popular Front and expected the
00:11prime minister to be selected from its ranks, an idea the president has dismissed.
00:16We all voted for the NFP, so it's a big disappointment.
00:21I think it's a tragedy, a catastrophe even for democracy.
00:26A feeling echoed by the New Popular Front's proposed candidate, Lucie Castet.
00:32And now the French people are being told, you got out to vote, but it meant nothing.
00:36You voted badly.
00:38Democracy means nothing to the president and that's extremely dangerous.
00:42The New Popular Front's biggest party, France En Barde, has called for a mass protest on
00:46the 7th of September.
00:48Its colleagues, the socialists, ecologists and communists, are refusing to break rank,
00:54reclining to take part in further negotiations with the president.
00:57The socialists are being asked to act as surrogates for Macron's dying regime.
01:02The answer for me is clear and simple, no, we would not allow any extension of Macron's
01:07government.
01:08Macron loyalist François Bayrou tried to put out the fire, portraying the president
01:13as a guarantor of the institutions.
01:17We have a group of parties who claim to have won the election, but that's not the case.
01:23They are faced with around twice the number of MPs who refuse to have anything to do with
01:27them.
01:30Faced with an ever more divided assembly, Macron's hunt for a prime minister is back
01:34to square one.