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Elections France: The extreme right rises in voting intentions to 37%, macronism falls

The French extreme right rises in voting intentions and could get 37% of the votes in the first round of the legislative elections next Sunday together with its conservative allies, according to a poll published this Friday, on the last day of the campaign.

That means two percentage points more than last 21st, explains the demoscopic institute OpinionWay, which carried out this new survey on Wednesday and Thursday with a representative sample of 1,058 people.

In second place, the new Popular Front that brings together the left-wing parties, would achieve 28% of the votes, the same percentage that was attributed to it on Friday last week.

The outgoing majority of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, would have to settle for 20%, which is one point less in almost a week.

The Republicans (LR), the traditional right-wing party in which there has been a split led by its president, Éric Ciotti, who has allied with Le Pen and Bardella, would be left with 6%, the same percentage of the poll of last day 21.

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OpinionWay does not make seat projections in the second round, which will be held on July 7 and in which the National Assembly is renewed. The main question is whether the extreme right will reach an absolute majority (at least 289 of the 577 deputies at stake), which is the condition that has imposed itself to form a government.

For the people surveyed, the most important issue of this express campaign, called after the setback suffered by Macron in the European elections on June 9, is purchasing power (66% cite it), followed by the increase in prices (52%), social protection (49%), security (49%) and immigration (42%).

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Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.

“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.

“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.

Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.

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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.

However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.

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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.

“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

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