Legislative elections: Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella call for the second round

Marine Le Pen asked voters in her constituency of Pas-de-Calais to confirm her score in the second round of the general elections and considered it possible to send “a very important group” from the National Rally (RN) to the National Assembly. “The voters of the 11th constituency of Pas-de-Calais gave me 55% of the votes,” the candidate welcomed her speech in Hénin-Beaumont, calling on “all voters to confirm and amplify their vote” where RN candidates will be qualified for the second round, in order “to send a very important group of patriotic deputies to the new National Assembly.” With 53.96%, she narrowly missed the election in the first round, the high abstention depriving her of the required votes of 25% of those registered. For his part, the president of the RN estimated on TF1 that there was “no fatality” to the alternative between the presidential majority and a union of the left. He also stressed that he would vote “blank” in the scenario of a second round between a candidate from the presidential party and the Union of the Left (Nupes), believing that his voters “will do the same.”

At the trial for the attacks of November 13, the defense has the floor

After the prosecution, speak to the defense. At the trial for the attacks of November 13, the lawyers of Salah Abdeslam and his thirteen co-defendants present before the Paris Special Assize Court are beginning to plead on Monday and for two weeks. The hearing resumes at 12:30pm. It ended Friday afternoon with the sentences requested against the twenty men tried for nine months for their participation in the attacks that killed 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis. For the lawyers of the fourteen defendants appearing before the court - six others, including five senior members of the Islamic State group presumed to have died in Syria, are being tried in their absence - it is time to respond to the prosecution's arguments.

Northern Ireland: London presents its post-Brexit status review

The British government will present to Parliament on Monday its bill amending certain elements of the Northern Ireland Protocol, concluded with the European Union in the context of Brexit and at the heart of high tensions in the British province. Even though the government insists that the proposed law is “legal,” the opposition Labor Party and the Irish Republican Party Sinn Fein have accused it of “violating international law.” The EU has also clearly warned that such a unilateral measure would mean reneging on an international treaty and would justify trade reprisals.

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Amnesty International accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine on Monday, saying that hundreds of civilians have died in relentless attacks on Kharkiv, many of which were carried out with cluster bombs.

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