(8 Jul 2024)
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Berlin, Germany – 8 July 2024
1. Various of officials at news conference, media
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson:
"The outcome of the parliamentary elections. I’m not giving away any secrets that I was somewhat relieved to see what didn’t happen. And we’ll have to take a close look at everything else. Or rather, that’s in Paris for now. We’ll of course have a polite chat about how a government will emerge in this very unusual and historic constellation. And of course we are staying on the sidelines."
3. Hebestreit speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson:
"The chancellor will certainly have the opportunity to discuss the situation a little with his friend, the French President, in Washington. But for now, I think, there is a certain sense of relief that the things that were feared have not happened. What will happen now with this election result? Time will tell and France will decide.”
5. Journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson:
"As you know, and we talked about this here last week, the German-French relationship is a very special one. It is certainly also the core of German-French reconciliation, the core of ensuring that we experience a Europe that can live in peace and freedom and that is ever closer to one another."
7. Hebestreit speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson:
"In this respect, I stay out of French domestic politics and point to the close German-French relationship that exists politically. We are closely intertwined economically, culturally and socially. And it will always stay that way."
9. Journalist
10. Wide of briefing
STORYLINE:
The German government responded to the result of the French run-off election with relief, but a spokesperson warned on Monday that concerns remain about the lack of majority in parliament.
Election results show French voters have chosen to give a broad leftist coalition the most parliamentary seats in pivotal legislative elections keeping the far right National Rally party away from power.
Yet no party won an outright majority, putting France in an uncertain, unprecedented situation.
President Emmanuel Macron ’s centrist alliance arrived in second position and the far right in third — still drastically increasing the number of seats it holds in the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament.
“For now, a certain relief prevails that things that we feared have not materialized,” German government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit told reporters in Berlin. "Only time will tell what happens with this election result and France will decide.”
“The German-French relationship is a very special one," Hebestreit added. “It is certainly also the core of German-French reconciliation, the core of ensuring that we experience a Europe that can live in peace and freedom and that is ever closer to one another."
French President Emmanuel Macron is due to visit the United States to attend a NATO summit this week.
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will have the opportunity to discuss the election results with the French leader at the event, Hebestreit said, but stressed that Germany would be staying on the sidelines with regard to French domestic politics.
AP video by Pietro De Cristofaro
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