The rise of the far right in the European elections has shaken countries like France and Belgium

The first surveys indicated a significant advance of the extreme right in the elections to the European Parliament. And, although the predictions have come true, in the absence of knowing the final result, the extreme right parties receive around 20% of the vote and will not have the decisive role they aspired to: of the 720 seats in the Chamber, 191 are for the populists, 135 for the social democrats, 83 for the liberals, 53 for the greens and 35 for the left.

However, the rise of the extremes has already had its first consequences. French President Emmanuel Macron has called legislative elections after the National Rally (RN), the party led by Marine Le Pen, won nearly a third of the vote.

For his part, the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, has resigned after learning of the poor results for his party, the Liberals, on this election day, which also saw federal and regional elections.

Germany has also suffered a setback. The CDU conservatives won comfortably with about a third of the vote. The second-most voted force was the post-fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which with 16% is above the two parties that rule the country, the Social Democratic Party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Greens.

In Austria, the extreme right is leading in projections and the Austrian Liberal Party (FPÖ), with its xenophobic and Eurosceptic tendencies, will win the election with over 25% of the vote.

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