Last Council of Ministers, legislative, baccalaureate and journalist killed in Israel: the information to remember this afternoon

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Jean Castex's government is meeting this Wednesday for the last time around Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace, for a final Council of Ministers for the five-year term.

This one officially ends Friday night, at midnight, for the second to begin.

However, the composition of the future government is still unknown.

Monday, in Berlin, Emmanuel Macron had already claimed to know who will be his future Prime Minister.

Meanwhile, the nominations continue to fall.

The presidential majority must unveil, in the coming hours, a new wave of candidates, while most of them had been gathered Tuesday in Aubervilliers for a day of "training".

“If you want to do an installed campaign, you've got it all wrong.

It's quite the opposite.

It will be the toughest campaign, ”warned Emmanuel Macron to the candidates.

La France insoumise has, for its part, published a list of 324 first candidates invested for the legislative elections within the New popular ecological and social union (Nupes), leaving the suspense hanging over the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône, that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who must soon say if he is standing again.

In the 14th district of the Rhône, Idir Boumertit, deputy to the communist mayor of Vénissieux Michèle Picard, was finally invested in place of the journalist Taha Bouhafs, who threw in the towel on Tuesday.

Tuesday evening on TF1, Marine Le Pen seemed to consider that Emmanuel Macron would obtain a majority in the legislative elections of June 12 and 19.

And that "the real question" is "what opposition" will the head of state face him.

The French "have already chosen a little by putting me in the second round", she argued.

And they “do not want this opposition” from the Nupes.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon "can transform the National Assembly into a ZAD", she warned this Wednesday on RTL, with "defenders of black blocks, defenders of the burkini at the swimming pool, those who want to disarm the police, open jails”.

What else to remember

• Beginning of the baccalaureate exams.

  The baccalaureate specialty tests begin this Wednesday for some 520,000 candidates.

  From 2 p.m., Terminale students from general and technological high schools will study these tests, each of which is assigned a coefficient of 16. These tests represent one third of the baccalaureate results, calculated on 100 points.

  The Covid-19 had disrupted, over the past two years, the organization of this new Bac, born of the Blanquer reform.

• A journalist killed by the Israeli army.

  The journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the most famous of the al-Jazeera television channel, was killed on Wednesday morning by Israeli gunfire while covering armed clashes in the occupied West Bank.

  Another journalist, Ali al-Samoudi, injured during these clashes, accused the Israeli army of having opened fire on the journalists.

  “We were on our way to cover the army operation when they opened fire on us... A bullet hit me.

  The second bullet hit Shireen,” he said on leaving hospital.

• Respite in Ukraine.

  The Russian noose is loosening on Kharkiv, the second city of Ukraine located in the east and which had been shelled since the end of February.

  “Our armed forces gave us all good news from the Kharkiv region.

  The occupiers are gradually being pushed back from Kharkiv,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed in a video.

  Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to "extend" the conflict to Transnistria, a region of Moldova that seceded in 1990, US intelligence has said.

• The new Champs-Elysées presented.

  It is a titanic construction site which awaits the "most beautiful avenue in the world".

  A 40 million euro project which was presented on Wednesday which should make people talk... The number of lanes dedicated to traffic will be reduced from 12 to 8 – if the prefecture gives its agreement.

  Apart from that, no revolution, but more polish: the sidewalks will be redone, the gardens will be more open and a hundred new trees will be planted there.

  Work should start this summer and end at the dawn of the 2024 Olympic Games. After which a larger project will be imagined, we promise.

• Rising tensions in Sri Lanka.

  The violence that erupted on Monday left eight dead and more than 225 injured in Sri Lanka, according to the police, who had to reinforce the security of several judges who were targeted.

  The police have been ordered to go on the offensive and fire live ammunition to avoid "anarchy" in the country, one of its officials announced on Wednesday.

  The country is facing its worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948.

it concerns you

This is good news for those who declare their taxes in paper format.

Due to the delay in sending the pre-filled forms, the tax administration has decided to postpone the deadline for filing from May 19 to May 31.

The schedule for filing declarations online has not changed.

The deadline depends on your department of residence.

If you live in departments 1 to 19 or abroad, you have until May 24.

From 20 to 54, until May 31, and from 55 to 976, you have one more week, until June 8.