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12:12 p.m. : It’s noon, what to remember from the news?
• The number of exiles has reached 3 million, announces the International Organization for Migration. For its part, Unicef estimates that a child is forced to flee the country every second that passes, said James Elder, a spokesman for Unicef. Follow the evolution of the situation in our direct.
• Candidates pass their grand oral exam in front of local elected officials. “I don’t know if I will still be a candidate tonight. Because this election no longer has any meaning“, says Jean Lassalle. Follow the situation in our live.
• “It is not an electoral decision, but an economic one”defends Minister Amélie de Montchalin, on franceinfo. “We cannot, as a public employer, let the purchasing power of our agents drop out in this unprecedented situation”she declares while the oppositions denounce a measure taken for the presidential election.
• Tarn and Haute-Garonne are placed on orange alert due to the risks associated with high winds.
12:03 : Local authorities: @PhilippePoutou proposes “structures of direct democracy” at the local level. “It wouldn’t be complicated anyway to trust the population and the inhabitants.”#RencontreLibertésLocales https://t.co/85po9FipgP
12:01 : Philippe Poutou, NPA candidate, is in turn heard by local elected officials. It offers “structures of direct democracy”. “We are in a very undemocratic world, unfortunately the local democratic structures are not so either”he believes.
11:45 a.m. : “The removal of a level of the millefeuille would probably be justified but it is not for me a priority”: @MLP_officiel evokes a rapprochement between regions and departments and the idea of the territorial adviser, imagined in 2010#RencontreLibertésLocales https://t.co/X48E3ulBiA
11:46 : Marine Le Pen passes in turn in front of local elected officials. The candidate of the National Rally promises a “demetropolisation” and evokes a rapprochement between regions and departments, mentioning a possible territorial adviser.
11:27 : “I don’t know if I will still be a candidate this evening. Because this election no longer has any meaning. It no longer looks like anything (…) There are two unfortunate debates to which I will not be invited, no more than last night”, announces @JeanLassalle https://t.co/O5qoueD3u6
11:46 : “I don’t know if I will still be a candidate tonight“declares Jean Lassalle in front of the local elected officials.
11:21 a.m. : It’s borderline a Trumpist sentence! We must stop saying that there is no campaign. Those who vote Macron know perfectly well who and what they are voting for! Perhaps also if “the left” had made common cause, we would not be there! And then slim, we have to make the voters responsible a little. You have the right to vote, you find out about each other’s programs.
11:21 a.m. : Would he say the same thing if his candidate were the best placed in the voting intentions? Such remarks are totally unacceptable from this personality and irresponsible.
11:21 a.m. : Does Mr. Larcher have Trump in him? Feeling the big defeat for his side coming?
11:29 : Many of you reacted to the words of Gérard Larcher, the President of the Senate. “If there is no campaign, the question of the legitimacy of the winner will arise”he said in an interview with Figaro (paid article).
11:05 a.m. : “I know what you represent, the place you hold in the hearts of our compatriots, you the 35,000 sentinels of France”: @JeanLassalle pays tribute to the action of the mayors #RencontreLibertésLocales https://t.co/ hOJPY7iHmY
11:47 : In front of local elected officials, Jean Lassalle pays tribute to the action of the mayors of France, whom he calls “35,000 sentinels of France”.
10:49 : “I want to affirm that democracy cannot be done without the municipality. It is the linchpin of the Republic”, considers @Fabien_Roussel. “We want to give back all of its role, all of its means, all of its place, to the municipality.”#RencontreLibertésLocales https://t.co/3do0h0ncB3
11:47 : All the presidential candidates (except Emmanuel Macron and Eric Zemmour) pass a great oral in front of the local elected officials. “I will return in 15 years the 15 billion euros to the communities taken under the Hollande mandate”promises the communist candidate Fabien Roussel, who salutes the role of the municipality.
09:52 : “The candidates who decided to come were right. The others were wrong, they are only two out of twelve”, notes @DavidLisnard, in introduction to a hearing of presidential candidates. @EmmanuelMacron and @ZemmourEric are absent.#RencontreLibertésLocales https://t.co/gLAfqZUaDh
11:47 : The candidates pass their great oral in front of the local elected officials. “The candidates who decided to come were right. The others were wrong, they are only two out of twelve”, says David Lisnard, president of the Association of Mayors of France. Who are the two candidates not to be heard? Emmanuel Macron and Eric Zemmour.
09:22 : .@J_Denormandie denounces the “irresponsible remarks” of Gérard Larcher. “He is trying to run a little music that would be a lawsuit for illegitimacy, in the event that Emmanuel Macron is re-elected, on the grounds that the campaign has not been done enough.” #le79Inter https://t.co/2sbidjkuPx
11:47 : He denounces “irresponsible talk”. Julien Denormandie, Minister of Agriculture, responds to Gérard Larcher. The President of the Senate told the Figaro : “If there is no campaign, the question of the legitimacy of the winner will arise.”
09:25 : “If there is no campaign, the question of the legitimacy of the winner will arise.”
Senate President Gérard Larcher warns of the ongoing campaign, overshadowed by the war in Ukraine. “Whoever wins the ballot in April, the conditions of this election will build its legitimacy”he says in the Figaro.