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00:00Four days of voting across the EU's 27 member states sees major gains for the far right.
00:11French President Emmanuel Macron calls snap elections after suffering a heavy defeat to
00:15the far right national rally in the EU elections.
00:32Viktor Orban's Hungarian right wing Fidesz party won big at the EU elections but lost
00:38major support.
00:58The Prime Minister's populist party received 44% of support at the polls on Sunday but
01:04experienced great losses and was down a whopping 11 percentage points from the 2022 general
01:10election results.
01:11This is the party's biggest defeat in 18 years.
01:14Fidesz's traditional opponents, the Social Democrat and Greens parties, only received
01:198% of votes and did not meet the threshold for entry into European Parliament.
01:24But a new political contender formed a few months ago, titled Tissa, garnered a mammoth
01:2929% of support.
01:32Party leader Peter Mozsor spoke of the ground-breaking results.
01:50As of Monday, 99% of the ballots have been counted.
02:21Far-right parties made major gains in the EU elections on Sunday, dealing stunning defeats
02:28to two of the bloc's most important leaders, French President Emmanuel Macron and German
02:33Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
02:35Overall across the bloc, two mainstream and pro-European groups, the Christian Democrats
02:40and the Socialists, remained the dominant forces.
02:43The gains of the far right came at the expense of the Greens, who were expected to lose about
03:19Emmanuel Macron's pro-business renaissance group also lost big.
03:48The four days of voting across the EU's 27 member states is the world's second biggest
03:52exercise in democracy behind India's elections.
04:01The 2024 European Parliamentary elections have had a massive and immediate impact on
04:06France's domestic politics.
04:10After suffering a heavy defeat to the far-right national rally, President Emmanuel Macron
04:14said he'll dissolve the National Assembly and call snap elections.
04:19He announced June 30th and July 7th as election days.
04:43Speaking to her supporters, National Rally Party leader Marine Le Pen said she welcomed
04:48Macron's decision, saying her party represented the major force for change in France.
05:13The national rally finished first with 31.7% of the vote, the first French party to receive
05:23more than 30% of votes in European elections since 1984.
05:28Trailing far behind in second place was Macron's renaissance party, finishing at over 14%.
05:36The socialists rounded out the top three at exactly 14%.
05:41French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement that he will be dissolving at the National
05:46Assembly after his party suffered crushing defeat at the hands of the French far-right
05:51national rally sent shockwaves throughout France and across the EU bloc.
05:56Now the French President will have about 20 days to come up with a plan to try and win
06:01the majority seats in French Parliament in these next upcoming legislative elections
06:05that will be held on the 30th of June and the 7th of July.
06:13Italian citizen Ilaria Salis will be released from detention in Hungary thanks to her election
06:19as an MEP.
06:21The 40-year-old teacher spent 15 months in jail after being accused of assaulting far-right
06:28demonstrators in Hungary.
06:31She's facing up to 20 years behind bars.
06:35However, she always maintained her innocency.
06:38The case made the headlines after the woman appeared in court handcuffed and chained.
06:46Following a public outcry, Rome summoned the Hungarian ambassador and eventually obtained
06:53Salis being moved to house arrest.
06:56The woman has been elected with the Green and Left Alliance party and will be able to
07:01be released thanks to MEP immunity.
07:31The PS had a relative victory with one more MEP than the AD, which also raised the number
07:38of MEPs for the first time in the history of the Portuguese far-right in the European
07:42Parliament.
07:43However, for the Chega party, this was also a result beyond expectations with only two
07:51MEPs elected.
07:52The Liberals also entered the European Parliament for the first time, the Portuguese Liberals,
07:57with the Liberal initiative of electing two MEPs.
08:00Ricardo Figueira, Euronews, Lisbon.
08:12Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Kruy has suffered a crushing defeat in the country's
08:16general elections with his Liberal Open VLD party managing less than 7% of the vote.
08:24We Liberals, we are combative and we are valuable.
08:31And I am convinced that we will rise again.
08:36I have seen an incredible amount of young talent in the past few weeks and I am very
08:43hopeful about that.
08:45Despite polls predicting that the far-right anti-immigration Flemish Belang party would
08:49become the main political force, the right-wing nationalist New Flemish Alliance retained
08:54first place with an expected 22%.
08:58Flemish Belang came in second, taking 17.5% of the vote.
09:03But it's important nowadays to give Flemish a different direction.
09:08Belgium is the past, Flemish is the future.
09:11The Flemish people need a new government which is Flemish and is right-wing.
09:17Sunday's results will result in complex negotiations to form coalitions in a country divided by
09:22language and deep regional identities.
09:25Flemish Belang has so far been blocked from entering government as mainstream parties
09:30vow to exclude it from power under a Cordon Sanitaire doctrine.
09:35That refers to the protective barrier put in place to stop the spread of infectious
09:39diseases.
09:43Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel's war cabinet, announced his resignation on
09:48Sunday.
09:49The move does not immediately pose a threat to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who
10:17still controls a majority coalition in parliament.
10:21The Israeli leader will become more reliant on his far-right allies.
10:26Gantz said that Netanyahu is making total victory impossible and that the government
10:31needs to put the return of hostages seized by Hamas above political survival.
10:37Gantz joined Netanyahu's government shortly after the Hamas attack in a show of unity.
10:44Ukrainian forces on Sunday said they hit an ultra-modern Russian warplane stationed
10:49at an airbase nearly 600 kilometres from the front lines.
10:53An attack that potentially marks Ukraine's first known successful strike on an Su-57
10:59fighter plane.
11:01The claims come after Western allies allowed Kyiv to use their weapons for limited strikes
11:06inside Russia.
11:08Kyiv's main military intelligence service shared satellite photos that showed the aftermath
11:13of the attack.
11:15Meanwhile, Ukrainian attacks have left at least 28 people dead, according to Russia-installed
11:20officials in the partially occupied Ukrainian regions of Kursin and Luhansk, as Russia and
11:26Ukraine continue to exchange drone attacks overnight into Saturday.
11:31With no comment yet on the reports of its Su-57 fighter being hit, Moscow claims its
11:36forces downed three Ukrainian drones in the Astrakhan region.