French Politics and Elections

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French Election Results and Political Response

Marine Le Pen's populist-nationalist party, RN, won twice as many votes as Emmanuel Macron's globalist centrists in the European Parliament election, leading Macron to dissolve the national parliament and call for fresh French elections.