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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.

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