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09:37 : Heard #Macron say that he wants to welcome #refugees from #Ukraine “as in the past #Iraqis, #Syrians, #Afghans”. But the refugees from these countries have never been welcomed with loud trumpets! Demagogic and cynical.
09:41 : Nathalie Arthaud, Lutte Ouvrière presidential candidate, criticizes the position “demagogic and cynical” by Emmanuel Macron on the reception of refugees in France.
09:26 : It’s 9 o’clock, let’s do a new reminder of the main titles:
• US President Joe Biden is to announce additional security assistance of $800 million, according to a senior US official. Several loud explosions were heard this morning in the capital kyiv, which woke up under curfew. Follow the situation in our live.
• Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is expected in Corsica today. The French government is “ready to go as far as autonomy” he said in an interview with Corse-Morning. “We have been working for a long time on the institutional future of Corsica“he says this morning.
• Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, predicts a peak in March of around 120,000-150,000 contaminations per day and then a decline. “The hospital load will be contained”he says on franceinfo. “The epidemic is not over! It continues with viral circulation still high”warns the Scientific Council
• Emmanuel Macron is due to hold his first campaign meeting on April 2 in Paris, franceinfo learned from the candidate’s entourage. This meeting will therefore take place a little more than a week before the first round of the presidential election.
08:39 : The government “ready to go as far as autonomy” of Corsica: for @VPecresse, Emmanuel Macron “is at bay” and “gives in to violence”. “It’s not healthy, we have to bring order to Corsica before starting negotiations,” said the presidential candidate. #le79Inter https://t.co/mbPVTdrNfo
08:38 : “I think that we must give legislative and regulatory powers to regions, to communities which have a special status such as Corsica.” @Anne_Hidalgo in the interview with @SoMabrouk on #Europe1 https://t.co/7rUIXFhZJq
08:42 : While the government says it is “ready to go as far as autonomy”the presidential candidates deliver their vision. “I think that we must give legislative and regulatory powers to regions, to communities that have a special status like Corsica”declares on Europe 1 Anne Hidalgo, the socialist candidate. “In Corsica, we have a desperate president who gives in to violence as he had already given in to Notre-Dame-des-Landes”estimates on France Inter Valérie Pécresse, the candidate LR.
08:30 : #Présidentielle2022 ” There are 4 weeks left for all the questions of the French to find a political outlet. It is obvious that the president does not want to debate ? @yjadot, candidate for the presidential election ▶ #Les4V with @Caroline_Roux https:/ /t.co/p7yJX99NZC
08:30 : “It is obvious that the president does not want to debate”estimates on France 2 Yannick Jadot, the environmental candidate. “When a country is so tense, so questioning about its future, it must be able to find, in the presidential election, the possibility of choosing the society in which we want to live. And this debate is essential” , he argues.
08:12 : Guest on franceinfo, Antoine Diers, spokesman for the Reconquête! party, spoke about “the need to put an end to the ‘great replacement'”. We detail in this article why this notion is a racist and conspiratorial idea.
07:27 : Some are very varied this morning. Opinion returns to the possible lack of legitimacy of the candidate who will be elected during the next presidential election while the campaign is engulfed by the war in Ukraine.
07:38 : It is a little after 6 o’clock, here are the main titles:
• US President Joe Biden is to announce additional security assistance of $800 million, according to a senior US official. Yesterday, around 29,000 people were evacuated from several besieged towns in Ukraine, 20,000 in Mariupol, a port in southern Ukraine alone.
• Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is expected in Corsica today. The French government is “ready to go as far as autonomy” he said in an interview with Corse-Morning. He says he intends to hire a “unprecedented discussion around the institutional question.”
• Emmanuel Macron will hold his first campaign meeting on April 2 in Paris, franceinfo learned from the candidate’s entourage. This meeting will therefore take place a little more than a week before the first round of the presidential election.
• China is taking steps to free up hospital beds to prevent hospitals from being potentially overwhelmed by an outbreak of Omicron cases. Tens of millions of people are confined to the country. For its part, New Zealand will reopen its borders earlier than expected. “We are ready to welcome the world back”said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.