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On the agenda for this Sunday, April 3
Meetings. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate of La France insoumise, gives an appointment at 2 p.m. on the Place du Capitole, in Toulouse. At 3 p.m., the socialist candidate, Anne Hidalgo, must begin her speech at the Cirque d’hiver, in the capital.
Also at 3 p.m., at the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center in Paris, the candidate of the Les Républicains party, Valérie Pécresse, hopes “to wash away the affront” – in the words of its communicator Geoffroy Didier – from the Zénith failed, from what was jammed. The candidate of Lutte Ouvrière, Nathalie Arthaud, will also be there at a meeting at 3 p.m. as well.
Mobilizations. Several left and far left unions and associations urging people to demonstrate in the face of the multiplication “hateful, racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, sexist and LGBTiphobic speech, in particular embodied by Zemmour and Le Pen”from 2 p.m., Place de la République, in Paris.
In Ajaccio, the Corsican nationalists demonstrate at 3 p.m., to obtain “justice and truth” for the death of Yvan Colonna, following his attack by a fellow prisoner in Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône).