French President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday that he would dissolve the lower house of Parliament and call for new legislative elections after an exit poll showed his coalition government being handily defeated by the far-right opposition in the European Union’s parliamentary elections.
The first projections showed Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally party crushing Macron’s Renaissance party, with the former collecting a record 31 percent of the vote to the latter’s 15 percent. The center-left Socialist party came in third with 14 percent of the vote.
In an address, Macron said that the country was in need of a “clear majority in serenity and harmony,” and that he could not sit back and watch the encroaching influence of far-right parties continue to spread across the continent.
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