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00:00Keep your cool.
00:02That is a message the Palace or Emmanuel Macron's office has replied to Marine Le Pen.
00:07This after the head of the national rally accused the French president of an administrative coup.
00:12On Tuesday, Le Pen went on national radio and said rumours were swirling
00:16that Macron was racing to fill high-level positions like the head of the national police,
00:21diplomats and other top jobs.
00:25Dozens of administrative officials, a series of people
00:29whose objective is to keep Jordan Bardella from governing as he wishes.
00:33I think it's an administrative coup d'état.
00:37Le Pen's ally Eric Ciotti also expressed the same view on a conservative channel
00:41about upcoming positions but also jobs that were filled right before last Sunday's vote.
00:47There were already nominations last week of those close to him.
00:51We can see we're in a moment of overall panic to find jobs for France.
00:56In response to these accusations, the president's office said that Marine Le Pen
01:00needs to measure her accusations.
01:03For the government's spokesperson, the far-right leader is lying.
01:07Marine Le Pen was lying. We know that she is manipulating information.
01:11The fact that appointments are made during the Council of Ministers is nothing new.
01:15She obviously worried about it today but it's nothing new.
01:18It happens at every Council of Ministers and precisely on the eve of the summer period
01:22to prepare for the start of the school year which is just around the corner.
01:27Gabrielle Attal also accused Le Pen of making big gestures with big words
01:32in order to hide her own panic.
01:35While the naming of top officials is the prerogative of the president,
01:38many jobs do require a signing off by the prime minister.
01:42If Macron enters into a power-sharing system, be it with the far-right or other parties,
01:47such signatures would be harder to obtain.