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This Saturday, Valérie Pécresse gives her first major speech since her victory at the Les Républicains Congress at the Maison de la Mutualité. Only 1000 people, all equipped with the sanitary pass, will listen to it at the beginning of the afternoon.

The right-wing party has given up on a large meeting, unlike Eric Zemmour last Sunday, worried about the idea of ​​creating a Covid-19 cluster.

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For Prime Minister Jean Castex, “childhood vaccination is a necessity”. France has so far only authorized the vaccine in children over 12 years old.

But discussions are rife about the vaccination of children aged 5 to 11, already authorized in several countries including the United States and Israel. Children “are transmitters”, underlines Jean Castex at the microphone of France Bleu.

“I am a living example of that. It was my 11 year old daughter who gave me the virus a few weeks ago. I was vaccinated, so I only had an extremely mild form. So yes, the vaccination of children is a necessity, “said the Prime Minister.

New Caledonia is called on this Sunday to vote for a third and final self-determination referendum, which ends an unprecedented decolonization process that began more than 30 years ago in this strategically located French territory.

The victory of the no at independence seems assured, the separatists having decided to shun the ballot for lack of having obtained the postponement, returning the choices for this archipelago of the South Pacific to the French post-presidential election.

The separatists refuse to go to the polls because they believe that the Covid-19 epidemic did not allow them to “lead a fair campaign”, and did not take their bereavement into account.

The Prime Minister recognizes it: “more than ever, the nation must reinvest in its health.” At the microphone of France Bleu Alsace, Jean Castex recognized problems at the hospital “which existed before the crisis but which were brought to light” during the latter.

“The staff hold the shock but it is extremely difficult,” he said, stressing “underinvestment in health” and “too low remuneration”.

According to the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, at the microphone of France Bleu, “we must be able to manage” to spend Christmas serenely. However, we must “respect all the rules and get vaccinated,” he said.

He was pleased, however: “we exceed 700,000 daily injections, it is an excellent figure” and we have exceeded “the bar of 90% of French people having received at least one dose” Friday evening.

The situation is evolving on the left. WhileArnaud Montebourg and Anne Hidalgo have been calling since Wednesday for a single candidacy on the left, figures of rebellious France have proposed this week to Fabien Roussel, the candidate of the Communist Party, to withdraw in favor of their leader.

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Asked on Franceinfo this Saturday, the LR mayor of Saint-Étienne, Gaël Perdriau, estimated that the unsuccessful candidate for the congress of the right-wing party Eric Ciotti “uses LR as a gateway to the National Front by possibly passing by the Zemmour box “.

“I denounce the words and ideas of Eric Ciotti who dreams of an identity right (…) for me it is obviously not the very essence of our party”, he declared, criticizing a “derivative”.

The elected had already castigated the candidacy for the LR Congress of Eric Ciotti and estimated on our antenna that the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes does not “represent” the ideas of the Republicans.

The ecological presidential candidate Yannick Jadot is holding this Saturday in the Aisne the first major event of a campaign which is struggling to take off and silence calls for union, including that of Anne Hidalgo in favor of a primary to the left.

In a gymnasium in Laon, a few kilometers from his native village, he will hold a “Forum of possibilities” in the afternoon, with testimonies from citizens preceding his speech.

A few hundred people are expected, unlike the great masses of Eric Zemmour and Jean-Luc Mélenchon last weekend.