AP Interview with dark-horse centrist candidate Francois Bayrou

• published: 21 Jul 2015
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1. Wide of control room at French radio network, France Inter, during interview of Francois Bayrou, French Presidential Candidate, Centrist UDF (Union for French Democracy) Party 2. Pan up on Bayrou speaking to radio host 3. Wide of studio 4. SOUNDBITE: (French) Francois Bayrou, French Presidential Candidate, Centrist UDF Party "All the polls today show that if I am a candidate in the run-off, then to the observers' great surprise, I will win the presidential election. This is, it's true, the rise of a candidate that we were not expecting. But the French have for a long time not been satisfied with the choice being forced upon them." 5. Wide of Bayrou being interviewed 6. SOUNDBITE: (French) Francois Bayrou, French Presidential Candidate, Centrist UDF Party: "The French people have chosen to change the current situation. They want a 'new deal', like that. And when the people want a 'new deal', it is very difficult to prevent it. And they found a candidate that responds to their expectations. For a long time, the French didn't think it could be imagined and now everything is showing that it's happening. It's going to be a long road ahead, there are two months left before the presidential elections, but they are reassured by neither of the two candidates who are running, for different reasons. And they want someone who is offering a new perspective. And it is this 'new deal' that is going to take hold in our country." 7. Bayrou being interviewed as see through gallery window 8. SOUNDBITE: (French) Francois Bayrou, French Presidential Candidate, Centrist UDF Party: "Everywhere in Europe there is a desire to escape from the quarrels which are essentially those of the 21st century, the quarrels of the Berlin Wall, left and right, a quarrel of the twentieth century, and to impose today an approach that takes into account the difficulty of the times." 9. Bayrou being interviewed on the radio 10. SOUNDBITE: (French) Francois Bayrou, French Presidential Candidate, Centrist UDF Party: "This is the vote for a new political method in France, a new political method for a new time, a new president for new times, a new majority for new times. And this vote will resemble very much the vote by the Germans eighteen months ago. To impose on the two political forces traditionally at war with each other, to forget about their war and start working together. The political proposal that I'm making for France is around a programme of recovery. It is a clear and strong programme to unite the personalities from different camps. It is bipartisan politics as you would say in your country, to get this country out of the crisis that it finds itself in." 11. Bayrou on cell-phone exiting studio and walking down the corridor STORYLINE: A third candidate in the race for the French presidency - who is rising steadily in opinion polls - is ready to pounce if front-runners Nicolas Sarkozy or Segolene Royal stumble. Commentators say it is unlikely that the two top candidates will falter but Francois Bayrou, leader of the Centrist UDF (Union for French Democracy) Party, told AP Television on Thursday that the French wanted a "new deal," and he was the one to deliver it. "All polls today show that if I am a candidate in the run-off, then, to observers' great surprise, I win the presidential election," said Bayrou. "This is, it's true, the rise of a candidate that we were not expecting. But the French have for a long time not been satisfied with the choice being forced upon them." Bayrou, whose campaign is built on the notion that he offers a middle-ground alternative is pushing for traditional political divisions to be cast aside enabling France to unite in tackling its multiple problems. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/09b7e72be19dd0fdbb977f7b657b12d1 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork