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Manifestation anti-A69. For environmentalists, the fight continues. This Sunday, October 22, they called for a new mobilization against the construction site of the A69 motorway linking Castres to Toulouse, to Saïx, in Tarn. Already on Saturday, several thousand opponents gathered in this same city, mostly peacefully, to chant “No to macadam”, while subcontracting companies on the controversial construction site were targeted by more violent activists. . The organizers had promised “ramdam”. “More than 10,000 people”, according to their last count at the end of the afternoon, responded to the call with force of percussion, drums, banners and slogans. The prefecture reported a main procession of 2,400 demonstrators and “2,500 radical and violent individuals”. In total, seven arrests took place and the police used “74 tear gas grenades”, according to the same source.
READ ALSO Motorway project between Castres and Toulouse: true from falseTribute to Lindsay. A white march is organized this Sunday by Lindsay’s mother in memory of her daughter and all victims of school bullying. The 13-year-old schoolgirl had been harassed for many months before ending her life in May. Before the start of the school year, the government unveiled a host of measures to wage a “relentless fight” against this phenomenon, ranging from the systematic reporting of cases to the justice system to the desire to “exclude student harassers” from social networks.
Argentina at the polls. Sergio Massa, a Minister of the Economy struggling with dizzying inflation, Javier Milei, an ultraliberal with an incendiary “anti-system” speech and Patricia Bullrich, a former minister who loves the iron glove. Among them is the future president of Argentina. This Sunday is the first round of the presidential election in Argentina. But in a country groggy with inflation, the Agentines, disillusioned by their politicians, will place their ballot in the ballot box without any real illusion.
READ ALSO Argentina: survival manual in times of high inflationThe Media on TV. Radical left-wing web television The Media will launch this Sunday on the traditional small screen, where it wants to be broadcast on boxes and connected televisions as “the first left-wing news channel”, she said. Launched in January 2018 by people close to La France insoumise, Le Média, until then accessible on its site and social networks, obtained “its agreement by the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom, formerly CSA ) on July 12,” he explained in a press release. This text, which sets out the commitments to be respected by the channel, authorizes its distribution on boxes and connected TVs, but not on TNT, whose frequencies are assigned by Arcom.
READ ALSO Media freedom: why Europe is treading on slippery slopesIn Venezuela, the opposition elects its candidate. Archi-favorite but ineligible: Maria Corina Machado seems able to handily win the opposition primary this Sunday in Venezuela, but that does not guarantee her being able to run in the 2024 presidential election against the leader of the opposition. State Nicolas Maduro. The one who belongs to the most radical wing of the opposition, was banned from holding public office for fifteen years, an ineligibility that the United States, which eased sanctions against Venezuela after the resumption of dialogue between the power and the opposition this week, push to lift. Eleven candidates are in the running, but the main opposition leaders did not present themselves or gave up, left behind in the polls by this 56-year-old woman, who imposed herself with a direct and uncompromising speech. In the polls, she has more than thirty points ahead of her closest opponent.
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