Legislative elections: all round candidates for the last day of the campaign

Absolute majority or simple majority? Back from Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron returns to the arena on Friday for the last day of the campaign before the second round of the parliamentary elections where the fate of his second quinquennium against the left-wing alliance and the RN is being decided. The day after a televised debate between the two rounds that focused on purchasing power and pensions between Gabriel Attal for the majority, Clémentine Autain for La Nupes and Jordan Bardella for the RN, at midnight, the candidates ended an envenomated campaign between Macronists and Melenchonists.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne continues to survey her constituency in Calvados, Marine Le Pen has hers in Pas-de-Calais, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon with Julien Bayou will hold a new press conference in the morning in Paris.

Ukraine suspended from the verdict on its application for EU membership
Ukraine was suspended on Friday from the verdict of the European Commission, which is due to give its opinion on the country at war's EU candidate status, a way for Kiev to protect itself by joining the “European family”. “Ukraine is part of the European family”, wanted to reassure German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a visit to Ukraine on Thursday, with his Italian and French counterparts, EU heavyweights.

The leaders of France, Germany and Italy, as well as their Romanian counterpart, said on Thursday they were ready to “immediately” grant Ukraine the status of candidate for membership of the European Union.

WTO: agreement reached on fisheries, Covid vaccines and food security

The World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial announced that it had approved “historic” agreements on fishing, the lifting of anti-Covid patents and food insecurity in Geneva on Friday. It's “an unprecedented set of results. It has been a long time since the WTO achieved such a large number of multilateral results. The results show that the WTO is capable of responding to the emergencies of our time,” said WTO director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, before the heads of delegation of the organization's 164 member countries. The conference aimed not only to address food insecurity created by Russia, but it also wanted to eliminate subsidies that facilitate overfishing and empty the oceans, temporarily lift patents that protect anti-Covid vaccines, or even R& to form the WTO itself.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) called on all nations to invest more in mental health on Friday, saying that “the suffering is enormous” and has been compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Three Palestinians were killed Friday morning in an operation by Israeli forces in Jenin, a stronghold of armed factions in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian agency Wafa said.

In basketball, the Warriors were crowned NBA champions for the seventh time in their history, after winning (103-90) in Boston on Thursday thanks to Stephen Curry, who scored 34 points, and an iron defense.