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10:43 p.m. : The news is accelerating, but let’s not forget to list the essential content of the day:
A focus on what Emmanuel Macron’s proposal would change to allow cohabiting couples to declare their taxes together;
This report in Chisinauthe capital of Moldova, where passers-by get used to living as neighbors of a country at war, with the fear of contagion from the conflict;
And this report in kyiv, within a collective of volunteers and artists who manufacture bulletproof vests.
8:49 p.m. : “For four years we have done everything to put a Socialist Party back in working order and to ensure that in this election we can arrive with a level of credibility which is that which allows us to be among the first.”
“Today there are real differences that justify support for Anne Hidalgo’s candidacy”declares on franceinfo Olivier Faure, first secretary of the PS.
8:44 p.m. : Guest of the TF1 news, Prime Minister Jean Castex, who calls for a vote for Emmanuel Macron, affirms that the latter will implement the pension reform, “as quickly as possible”if re-elected.
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7:04 p.m. : Emmanuel Macron, the outgoing president, candidate for his re-election, wishes “allow all couples living together to reduce their taxes as if they were married or in a civil partnership”. This would amount to allowing common-law partners to declare their taxes together and to be considered as a single tax household. What would this measure change? Fabien Jannic-Cherbonnel takes stock for franceinfo.
6:57 p.m. : “I’m not going to be cruel, I didn’t express it that way, but a President of the Republic, sometimes shouldn’t have said that, I think of what he said about the non-vaccinated, I think too [à ce qu’il a dit] on unemployment.
Almost a week after interviewing the “legitimacy” of a president elected without a campaign, the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, assured France Bleu Normandie that in view of his function, he is of his “responsibility to say that an electoral campaign is not simply a kind of agitation to make an election, that it is an opportunity to pose the subjects, to pose the problems”.
6:21 p.m. : The candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, widens the gap on her pursuers, according to our daily survey. The MP is credited with 17% of the voting intentions (+0.5 points) behind the outgoing President, Emmanuel Macron, at 30.5%. After Jean-Luc Mélenchon, at 13%, Eric Zemmour (10%, -1 point) and Valérie Pécresse (10%, stable) are now on a par. (THOMAS COEX / AFP)
09:58 : “Debates started a few weeks ago about whether or not Pétain saved French Jews. It’s totally mind-boggling.” Guest of franceinfo, Dominique Sopo, the president of SOS Racisme calls the candidates at “the supreme function of the French Republic” to wear more “issues of equality”.
09:13 : “I have no particular admiration” for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, believes Marine Le Pen. “It’s because our own leaders don’t always behave like heads of state that we find it wonderful when others do”, she added. Find all the presidential news in our live.
08:56 : “To save money on the RSA, I propose to limit the RSA on foreigners to those who can show that they have done 5 years of full-time equivalent in France”, presents Marine Le Pen on franceinfo. Emmanuel Macron has announced that he wants to condition this income on a minimum activity.
08:45 : “My priority choice is the purchasing power of the French. We compensate [ce choix] with the cost of immigration, the cost of fraud, the cost of agencies, McKinsey for example.”
The candidate of the National Rally is the guest of franceinfo. She wants to lower VAT to 5.5% on petrol, gas and electricity.
07:53 : “Today we blame a lot of the working classes because of their way of life, because they still drive cars, because they use diesel (…) at some point, I say stop. “
On France inter, the PCF candidate claims to want to support the working classes in the energy transition, without “type” their purchasing power.