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		</div><p>A European Parliament election that could reshape the political order across the continent is drawing to a close, with the anti-immigrant far right projected to win in France.</p>
<p>Germany’s centrist governing party is also heading for heavy losses.</p>
<p>The four days of balloting across the 28 European Union countries were seen as a test of the influence of the nationalist, populist and hard-right movements that have swept the continent.</p>
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<p>Exit polls in France indicated that Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party came out on top, in an astounding rebuke for French President Emmanuel Macron, who has made EU integration the heart of his presidency.</p>
<figure id="attachment_132687" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-132687" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/26B01F30-1E0D-4271-AED7-D023D0094E6D.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-132687" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/26B01F30-1E0D-4271-AED7-D023D0094E6D.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="394" data-wp-pid="132687" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-132687" class="wp-caption-text">Manfred Weber and German Chancellor Angela Merkel</figcaption></figure>
<p>Exit polls indicated the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel also suffered major losses.</p>
<p>With the stakes high, turnout across the bloc — not counting the UK, which is quitting the EU — was put a preliminary 51%, a 20-year high.</p>
<p>An estimated 426 million people were eligible to vote in what was considered the most important European Parliament election in decades. Full results are expected overnight.</p>
<p>The balloting, which began on Thursday, pitted supporters of closer unity against those who consider the EU a bureaucratic presence and want to return power to national governments and sharply restrict immigration.</p>
<p>Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, a major figure among the anti-migrant hard-line nationalists, said that he felt a “change in the air” and that a victory by his right-wing League party would “change everything in Europe”.</p>
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<p>Mainstream centre-right and centre-left parties were widely expected to hold on to power in the 751-seat legislature that sits in both Brussels and Strasbourg.</p>
<p>But the nationalist and populist parties that are hostile to the EU were expected to make important gains that could complicate the workings of the Parliament.</p>
<p>In the first major exit poll, in Germany – the EU’s biggest country, governing parties were predicted to lose ground while the Greens were set for big gains.</p>
<p>The far right was also expected to pick up slightly more support.</p>
<p>Germany’s Manfred Weber, the candidate of the European People’s Party, currently the biggest in the legislature, said in Berlin that the elections appeared to have weakened the political centre.</p>
<p>He said it is “most necessary for the forces that believe in this Europe, that want to lead this Europe to a good future, that have ambitions for this Europe” to work together.</p>
<p>In France, Ms Le Pen’s National Rally party said the expected result was a “clear punishment” for Mr Macron and the EU itself.</p>
<figure id="attachment_132668" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-132668" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CC20AC19-A4FB-41E0-9024-1C3E91E9EF1D.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-132668" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CC20AC19-A4FB-41E0-9024-1C3E91E9EF1D.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="433" data-wp-pid="132668" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-132668" class="wp-caption-text">Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban casts his vote in Budapest</figcaption></figure>
<p>Hungary’s increasingly authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orban, a possible ally of Mr Salvini, said he hopes the election will bring a shift toward political parties that want to stop migration.</p>
<p>The migration issue “will reorganise the political spectrum in the European Union,” he said.</p>
<p>The EU and its Parliament set trade policy on the continent, regulate agriculture, oversee antitrust enforcement and set monetary policy for 19 of the 28 nations sharing the euro currency.</p>
<p>Other countries voting on Sunday included Italy, Poland, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Belgium and Lithuania.</p>
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