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Worried French President calls for snap polls
Updated On: 11 June, 2024 07:28 AM IST | Brussels | Agencies
Move comes in the wake of a big victory for his rival Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in the European Parliament vote
Supporters of the French far-right National Rally at the party election headquarters. Pic/AP
Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union with major gains in parliamentary seats, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron, who called snap legislative elections. Some ballots in the vote for the European Parliament were still being counted on Monday, but the outcome showed the 27-nation bloc’s parliament membership has clearly shifted to the right.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni more than doubled her party’s seats in the assembly. And despite being hounded by a scandal involving candidates, the Alternative for Germany extreme right party still rallied enough seats to sweep past the slumping Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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