EU elections 2024 live: Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap elections after huge far-right gains

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EU elections 2024 live: Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap elections after huge far-right gains
theguardian.com

"Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has announced that he is dissolving the national assembly, and calling for legislative elections on June 30 and July 7.

The French president said that he can’t pretend nothing has happened, that the outcome of the EU election is not good for his government and that the rise of nationalists is a danger for France and Europe."

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Social media disinformation campaigns from the Kremlin and possibly also the CCP.

Powerful American people/groups spreading disinformation or funding political extremism is very different from the government doing it.

Money is power. Just because that shower have the sense to sit outside of the spotlight of political scrutiny does not mean that they are apolitical nor does it make the influence they cast not strongly American in flavour.