President Emmanuel Macron dissolves French National Assembly and calls snap election

French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved France's National Assembly and called a snap election after his party suffered a calamitous result in elections to the European Parliament.

Marine le Pen's hard right National Rally party won about 32% of the vote - a 10 point increase on the last EU election in 2019.

It is more than double the 15% taken by Mr Macron's centrist, pro-European Renaissance party, according to exit polls.

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