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Newshour: 25/04/2022 20:06 GMT: Business-as-usual at start of Macron's second term

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25/04/2022 20:06 GMT

25/04/2022 20:06 GMT: Business-as-usual at start of Macron's second term

Business-as-usual at start of Macron's second term

BBC World Service - Newshour, Business-as-usual at start of Macron's second term

Business-as-usual on the first day of Macron's second term

Macron is the first French president in twenty years to win re-election, but it came amid a high number of abstentions and a record number of votes for the far-right.

Emmanuel Macron is the first French president in 20 years to win re-election, but it came amid a high number of abstentions, a lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy, and a record number of votes for the far-right.

Yet he has done something no other French president has achieved before: winning re-election while still being in charge of his own government. We'll hear from voters in Paris about what they want to see the centrist achieve. 

Also in the programme: the board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn takeover offer from the billionaire Elon Musk; a Turkish court sentences the activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala to life in prison; and we'll hear from the Ukrainian soldiers on the front line of Russia's offensive in the east.

(Photo shows Emmanuel Macron waving to supporters. Credit: Christophe Petit Tesson/European Pressphoto Agency)

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