French govt meeting with Macron to prevent far-right takeover

We're going to get a more reaction now from President Macron's camp, and that's with our Peter O'Brien, who's at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris. Peter McCall has been holding a meeting today, a bit of a crisis meeting. What's he been saying to his minister so far? We saw a string of ministerial cars fall into the Elysee Palace just behind me about midday. We've not seen them come back out again. We know that Gabriella tell the Prime Minister is among those talking to the president right now. And what they're trying to do is nail down the message, the message that they should have already had nailed down the moment we got those results at 8:00 PM last night. Instead, a couple of hours later, Prime Minister Gabriella Tao did come out and say. No votes for the Rassemble National, the far right. Let's make sure that whenever we have a candidate in 3rd place in one of those 303 way runoffs next Sunday, we we make sure that candidate does not run to give as much chance as possible as the candidates facing off against the FN to actually win that seat and deny the FN an absolute majority in parliament. But since then, we've seen a variety of confused messages from other other party loyalty from the outgoing. The outgoing Assembly national president, yeah, from Bruno, the mayor, the finance minister and from other parties allied with Macrons party, Edouard Philippe, the head of the Horizons party, They've all had different ideas and they've said actually some of them, no, we don't want any votes for the far left LFE party as well, which is dominating this left wing block. So we're not seeing 1 clear message for what voters should do and even for what candidates should do who've all got their own ideas and. In any case, what we'll see next, voters perhaps not voting tactically anyway, the ones who would have wanted Macron's camp to win, a lot of them will not be able to hold their nose. And I'm going to vote for the far left. And on the same side, left wing voters are very sick of Macron as well. Even if they do manage to get a strong message out, we're not sure how it might affect the vote. All right, Peter, thanks so much for that. Peter O'Brien there at the Elysee presidential palace.