The author reported that supporters chanted “Marine President” and “Macron resign” as Marine Le Pen addressed them. https://t.co/VeZe8SWpNV #MarineLePen #Macron #Election2027 #FR (translated)
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The author reported a heavy police presence in Orléans ahead of Marine Le Pen’s planned presidential campaign launch, describing it as a stark symbol of political division in France. https://t.co/klRRMey2Wt #France #Politique #MarineLePen #FR (translated)
The author wrote that Emmanuel Macron had hoped to overcome political divisions and restore France’s economic standing when he came to power in 2017. The author said Macron was now facing his final months in office with France more divided and indebted than ever. https://t.co/FMuTIHmY8l https://t.co/GUzoVU0mRi #Macron #Politique #France #FR
The author wrote that security measures in Paris included searches of people near marches and soldiers on patrol, adding that the soldiers did not like being filmed. https://t.co/DRki3tT8qn #Paris #Sécurité #Manifestation #FR
The author described the protest in Paris as large and largely peaceful, and said people there told them they were demonstrating over schools, against the government and Emmanuel Macron, over the cost of living, and in support of the right to protest. The people they spoke to appeared unconcerned about the violence the previous week. https://t.co/gbbwaUWOMT #Paris #Protest #Macron #FR
The author said that 24 Paris Metro stations, the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay and many other museums were closed that day. #Paris #musées #transports #FR
The author wrote that a large, informal football match had broken out spontaneously as an unintended side effect, separate from the protest. They said they had not realised how many children lived there, describing them as largely unseen and effectively confined indoors, and linked this to why children did not play outside.
The author said the latest poll on second-round election scenarios, conducted from Oct. 17 to 19, showed Marine Le Pen winning by wide margins in several matchups. Édouard Philippe, a centre-right conservative who the author described as Le Havre’s mayor and a former prime minister under Macron, performed best against her, the post said. https://t.co/0sxwLmaNz8 #LePen #Election2023 #Politique #FR
The writer said the French government had blamed the hard left for the unrest, while judicial authorities had been more cautious, saying those arrested did not appear to be politically unaffiliated, low-profile individuals. https://t.co/tWd2FvnAZV #France #Gouvernement #Justice #FR
The author suggested that attempts to blame Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s hard-left movement for unrest in France could be intended to keep him out of the presidential election’s second round, where polls indicated he would lose by a wide margin to Le Pen. https://t.co/tWd2Fvn3an #France #Elections2022 #Mélenchon #FR
The author believes that a statement evoking a calm and joyful atmosphere in the absence of police could mark a turning point in the French presidential campaign. https://t.co/GWUSiKHdCM #France #Élections2022 #Politique #FR (translated)
The post said a cross-border trade in Sally Rooney’s books had emerged after they were removed from UK distribution over her support for Palestine Action. It said bookshops in Northern Ireland were buying copies from Dublin wholesalers, where they quickly sold out, and receiving many online orders from Britain. https://t.co/zyp8EBDndu #SallyRooney #BookTrade #PalestineAction #GB #IE #NI
The author wrote that protesters had stormed and set fire to buildings in cities across France during Saturday demonstrations, which they said aimed to bring student protesters together with a revived yellow vest movement. https://t.co/ynn4HAPYLS #France #Protest #Manifestation #FR
The author said French teachers had noticed something on their payslips that they believed revealed the scale of a school-funding crisis. They argued that money people thought was funding schools was instead going towards pensions, describing the discovery as “a bombshell”. https://t.co/JSO413nPAP #Éducation #France #CriseFinancière #FR
The author wrote that Raphaël Glucksmann had made a documentary about the Rwandan genocide and campaigned for France to recognise genocide against the Uyghurs. The author said Glucksmann’s refusal to use the term for Gaza was now overshadowing his campaign as the French centre-left’s presidential candidate. https://t.co/jNUenZJT1g #Génocide #Rwanda #Gaza #RW #FR #CN #PS
The author wrote that Victor Spaggiari had been a familiar sight to Galway residents, sitting on the same bench each day, and that he left an estate worth €1.29 million when he died. The author said they had traced Spaggiari’s family in Italy to find out why. https://t.co/847qQVepDf #Galway #Homelessness #HumanStories #IE #IT
The post said Emmanuel Macron changed his schedule at the last minute to attend Mass, seeking to tap into popular sentiment and displacing the local mayor as host. It described Pope Leo as an unexpected hit. https://t.co/u4bLh5w75Y #Macron #Pope #Politique #FR #IT
Alone and fleeing scandal, a 23-year-old gave birth in a Catholic mother and baby home in 1917. The surname she chose for her baby, ‘Prevost’, endured down the decades, becoming the name of her grandson, Pope Leo XIV. My piece on the pope’s family secret: https://t.co/sTaFAxTvsm #PopeLeoXIV #familysecrets #history #IE
Rehearsals are underway for Saturday’s large outdoor mass led by Pope Leo in Place de la Concorde in Paris https://t.co/IPByInWSLv #PopeLeo #Mass #Paris #FR
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni faces a challenge from the right — a macho ex general whose party manifesto says Italy should be a “Mediterranean patriarchy” and delivers critiques of her policies on Instagram while holding melons to his chest https://t.co/QwLJJIUZuM #GiorgiaMeloni #ItalianPolitics #Patriarchy #IT