Protests broke out in Paris on Sunday as Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party won a sweeping victory in the European parliament elections, gaining 32% of the vote.
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As the results came in, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced he was dissolving the national assembly and called for legislative elections to begin on 30 June. Demonstrators chanted anti-fascist slogans in Paris’s Place de la République.
Fouad Khayat, 27, a protester, said: ‘People like me – on top of which I’m a Muslim – we’ll be the first victims of Emmanuel Macron’s risky bet if, tomorrow, we find ourselves with a far-right prime minister in our country’
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