🗳 🇫🇷 📊 Marine Le Pen would win any runoff in France’s 2027 presidential race, poll finds

📝 RealRationalist: "Any runoff" means the five duels Ifop tested for LCI, from 56% vs. Philippe to 68% vs. Mélenchon. The online poll of 1,928 registered voters ran from 8 p.m. Oct. 17 to Oct. 19, overlapping the Oct. 17–18 urban violence.

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#BREAKING | 🇹🇷 🇶🇦 🇵🇰 🇮🇩 — Türkiye, Qatar, Pakistan, and Indonesia signed the “Badr” defense industry cooperation pact in Doha.

Defense ministers agreed to a memorandum of understanding covering joint production, R&D, and military training. The deal shifts bilateral projects to a multilateral framework, leveraging each nation’s production strengths. “Badr” means full moon in Arabic.

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—🇫🇷 WATCH: Armored vehicles are now parked in front of Macron’s official residence, the Élysée Palace.

🔗 Visegrád 24

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—🇫🇷 WATCH: A CENTAURE armored vehicle from the gendarmerie is deployed in front of the National Assembly in Paris.

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—🗳🇷🇸 Statement from The National Independent, Serbian news account on X:

Serbia goes to the polls tomorrow.

Hoping that everything goes smoothly and that, whatever the results, they will be accepted and respected.

May the people of Serbia find the strength to listen to one another, bridge their differences and move forward together.

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—🇫🇷 NEW: The Macron government has announced an increase of 10,000 police officers who will be added to the 60,000 already deployed last Saturday.

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—🔴 JUST IN: A demonstration is reported to be underway in Clermont-Ferrand, where authorities have banned gatherings in the city centre for Saturday.

➡️ Trade unions had maintained their call to protest and challenged the ban in court.

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—🔴 JUST IN: Around 150 people gathered near Lyon 3 University on Saturday morning.

➡️ Police fired tear gas to disperse them after protesters blocked traffic, an AFP journalist reported.

➡️ Demonstrations are banned across a large part of central Lyon today.

🔗 AFP report

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🇮🇹 UPDATED: The Army has been deployed in Milan.

—🔴 JUST IN: A large gathering is forming at Les Réformés in Marseille, with the arrival of several thousand protesters.

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🇫🇷 Multiple cities across France including Lyon, Grenoble, Nice, Montpellier, Limoges, Tours, Rennes, Brest, Rouen, Lille and Nancy banned all public gatherings this weekend.

In some cities like Marseille, trade unions received authorisation from the local prefecture to protest after much delays.

In Paris the prefecture approved a student protest but changed the route last minute, barring the protesters from entering Bastille Square.

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—🔴 JUST IN: First tensions between protesters and law enforcement in Marseille.

🔗 French confrontation

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