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French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have suffered crushing defeats in the European Parliament election and should resign, Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has said.

In France, the right-wing National Rally party, associated with Marine Le Pen, is estimated to have scored around 32% of the vote, while Macron’s Besoin d’Europe coalition is projected to have won just 15%. The result has prompted the French president to announce a snap parliamentary election.

In Germany, Scholz’s Social Democrats scored their worst result in decades with 14% of the vote, according to projections. Meanwhile, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to finish second with an estimated 15% of the vote, trailing the center-right CDU/CSU alliance, which is estimated to have won around 30%.