French President Macron calls for snap election after heavy defeat in EU vote
French President Emmanuel Macron said he would dissolve the country's parliament and call for a new legislative election after suffering a heavy defeat in EU elections on Sunday. Exit polls published by public broadcaster France TV indicated that Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) is set to win around 31.5% of the vote, compared to 15.2% for Macron's Renaissance party. The blow led the French leader to call for a surprise parliamentary election, with the first round on June 30 and the second round on July 7. "I will ... not be able, at the end of this day, to act as if nothing had happened," Macron said in a TV address, according to a translation
