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He noted far-right parties RN and Reconquete had taken 40% of the vote.

The rise of nationalists and demagogues is a danger to our nation, he said.

I cannot act as if nothing has happened…

Emmanuel Macron

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I have decided to give you back the parliamentary choice… and I am therefore dissolving the National Assembley.

There were moves to the right in a number of countries across the EU bloc.

‘Grizzy and the Lemmings’