France to hold new elections after Macron’s party suffers losses

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said he was dissolving the country’s National Assembly and that new elections would take place on June 30 and July 7. Also on Sunday, the right-leaning opposition party National Rally announced that it had become the leading party in France after elections held over the weekend. National Rally encouraged its supporters to go out again on June 30 and July 7 to reestablish the party’s dominance in those elections.

How does this compare to the rest of Europe? Several European countries held elections this past weekend. The elections, which occurred from Thursday to Sunday, featured roughly 370 million voters deciding who would be the 720 members of the European Parliament, one of the legislative bodies of the European Union.

Right-leaning voters also won major victories in Germany in the election, beating out Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party. Italy, which already had a right-leaning governing coalition, saw yet further victories for right-leaning parties.

Dig deeper: Listen to Mary Muncy’s report on The World and Everything in It podcast about European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen trying to woo right-leaning groups before this election.