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French President Emmanuel Macron dissolves parliament after loss to National Rally in European elections
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Macron’s Renew party suffered a stinging defeat in the European elections, securing just 15.2% of the votes to the far-right National Rally’s 31.5%, according to provisional results.
In a five-minute video address released on social media shortly after 21:00 CET, Macron said that “after having carried out the consultations provided for in Article 12 of our Constitution, I have decided to give you back the choice of our parliamentary future by voting.”
Jordan Bardella, the RN’s lead candidate for these elections, had in his victory speech delivered shortly after the provisional results came out at 20:00 CET, called for such a move.
First of all, he must abandon the agenda he was preparing to implement: de-indexation of retirement pensions, the new rise in energy prices from this summer," Bardella told supporters.
“This unprecedented defeat for the current government marks the end of a cycle and day one of the post-Macron era, which it is up to us to build,” he added.
Marine Le Pen, the president of the RN’s group in the national assembly, told supporters she can “only welcome this decision” to call for snap elections, adding “we are ready for it.”
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