France 'avoided worst' with far right loss, Scholz's party spokesman says

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00:00We've had an official comment from the foreign policy spokesman for the SPD,

00:05which is Chancellor Solti's party.

00:07Neil Schmidt, who's a member of the German Bundestag, the German parliament,

00:11has said that the worst has been avoided.

00:14Macron is politically weakened.

00:16Even if he retains a central role in view of the unclear majority situation,

00:21forming a government will be complicated.

00:24He's saying that the French must now show flexibility

00:29and an ability to compromise to form a working coalition,

00:33which is something the Germans know a lot about.

00:37But Schmidt also added that he thought that these negotiations

00:41would be quite long drawn out and pretty complicated.

00:44We've also had reaction from some of the leading German newspapers

00:48with Faz Daly saying the crisis isn't over, quite the opposite.

00:54We're headed for a period of instability in France and across Europe

00:58with a fragile government coalition in France.

01:02Bild, it's the most popular magazine,

01:07sorry, it's the most popular daily in Germany,

01:10wonders whether Jean-Luc Mellotton may become the leader of France.

01:17They say he's contemptuous of Germany, so they're a bit worried about that.

01:21And the centre-left daily Süddeutsche Zeitung says

01:25the Republican Front stopped Le Pen and RN,

01:28but Parliament's going to be very fragmented

01:31and Macron has isolated himself on the Mount Olympus of power.

01:35So the German reaction, pretty mixed,

01:38basically a large dollop of advice there,

01:40get your act together and have a coalition work,

01:44and some concerns about how that may unfold

01:47and what that may mean for Germany

01:49and what that may mean for French-German relations.

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