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Far right surges in EU vote, topping polls in Germany, France, Austria

Marine Le Pen's National Rally has delivered a crushing defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Renaissance [Jilien De Rosa/AFP]

Far-right parties have made significant gains in the European Union parliamentary elections, delivering humiliating defeats to the parties of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer.

While mainstream parties kept control of the 705-member European Parliament on Sunday, the 27-member bloc swung palpably to the right in a sign of the durability of anti-establishment sentiment on the continent.

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