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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced he was dissolving parliament and called snap legislative elections after the far-right trounced his centrist alliance in EU polls.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The first round of elections for the lower house National Assembly will take place on June 30, with the second round on July 7, Macron announced in an address to the nation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The outcome of the EU elections, he acknowledged, is \u201cnot a good result for parties who defend Europe.\u201d Macron noted that, including the top scoring National Rally (RN), far-right parties in France managed to take almost 40 percent of the vote in the EU elections in France.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFar right parties\u2026 are progressing everywhere in the continent. It is a situation to which I cannot resign myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI decided to give you the choice\u2026 Therefore I will dissolve the National Assembly tonight.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis decision is serious and heavy but it is an act of confidence. Confidence in you, dear compatriots, and in the capacity of the French people to make the best choice for itself and future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The RN\u2019s list, led by Jordan Bardella, 28, gained between 32.3 and 33 percent of the vote compared with 14.8 to 15.2 percent for Macron\u2019s alliance led by his Renaissance party, according to projections from several polling firms.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Macron warned Thursday that the EU risked being \u201cblocked\u201d by a big far-right presence in the European Parliament after this week\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The election results also mark a critical moment as eyes turn to France\u2019s 2027 presidential vote where Macron cannot stand again and RN figurehead Marine Le Pen fancies she has her best-ever chance of winning the Elysee Palace.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] \u00a0 Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced he was dissolving parliament and called snap legislative elections after the far-right trounced his centrist alliance in EU polls. \u00a0 The first round of elections for the lower house National Assembly will take place on June 30, with the second round on July 7, Macron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/French-President-Emmanuel-Macron-Dissolves-Parliament-Calls-Snap-Elections-In-France-On-June-30.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29194,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192\/revisions\/29194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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