Today the Bundestag votes on vaccine mandates for Germany. Despite of all the negative effects and the low effectiveness of this not regularly approved cocktail, mainstream parties want to force Germans to get this shot. The AfD is the only party that is against it and that also wants to retract the mandates for health workers.

Result in the Bundestag: 296 votes in favor of jabs for people over the age of 60, 378 votes against the new law. This means for the time being there will not be mandatory jabs beyond the mandates for health sector workers in Germany.

Also the bill for a vaccine registry and mandates at a later point was clearly rejected by the MPs.

Let's see how the election in France goes today. 8 pm CEST we should have first results.

Macron and Le Pen going to round two... . The exotic Algerian migrant is at 7%.

Where is Gonzalo Lira? I thought Ukraine is this liberal Western country where everybody is free and they will be in the EU soon. What exactly happened to the Russian journalist who held this critical sign during a live broadcast? She is still in Russia. She was fined like 250 Euros for interrupting a broadcast and she works for a German mainstream news outlet now. We do not know what happened to Gonzalo Lira, but it is rather likely that the Ukrainian regime that he criticized had some part to play here.

Good news! Gonzalo Lira is alive.

He was picked up and detained by the Ukrainian SBU on Friday. He recently made his first appearance since then in a short video which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2yeSOcNlgE

Apparently, Gonzalo’s computer and cell phone were taken from him. He no longer has access to any of his social media accounts. He reiterates on the stream that he can't say anything publicly except that he's physically fine. He is still in Kharkov, and he is not allowed to leave the city.

Low voter turnout so far in France.

First results are expected at 8 pm CEST, so in half an hour.

58% for Macron according to first projections.