Sunday evening, São Paulo. Arms raised with his vice-president Geraldo Alckmin, Lula, 80, savours the moment in front of supporters dressed in red, then heads to Avenida Paulista: “Democracy always, dictatorship and fascism never again”. Re-elected for a fourth term with 51.78% of valid votes against 48.22% for Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, son of the former far-right president, according to the Superior Electoral Court, he overturns the first round, in which the son had led him, 47% to 45%. Flávio Bolsonaro says it is “impossible” to recognise the result, because of the two extra hours of voting granted by judge Cristiano Zanin, and demands that the election be annulled.
Porte d’Italie, 2 pm. The Paris march sets off along a route imposed by the prefecture. One placard sets the tone: “Switch off your TVs, look at reality, wake up”. In Paris, 110,000 people according to the police prefecture, 250,000 according to the CGT; across France, 410,000 according to the Interior Ministry, 800,000 according to the union.
Orléans, Saturday. The only candidate to succeed himself, Jordan Bardella is returned at the head of the Rassemblement National with 98.98% of the votes of 75,497 memebers, despite Mediapart’s revelations about antisemitic messages attributed to him. In town, 13,000 people according to the prefecture, 26,000 according to the organisers, march against the far right, Trappes on everyone’s mind.
Madrid, Saturday. Before thousands of oncologists gathered by the European Society for Medical Oncology, Amgen presents Imdelltra, combined with AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi, as first-line maintenance treatment in some patients with small-cell lung cancer: a 58% lower risk of death than with Imfinzi alone, according to Endpoints News, far beyond what analysts expected.
At first, I printed this paper for myself alone, every morning. I wanted to know what mattered in France, in Paris and in the world without spending an hour scrolling through screens. So I sorted, then I wrote.
filou d’actu is that sorting, shared. A few topics chosen every day, told simply, with the names of the media the facts come from. You read it with your coffee, from start to finish, then get on with your day.
