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Researcher unions urge alliance against National Rally in election

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“Massive mobilisation” of university staff needed to prevent far-right victory, French unions say

Nineteen French higher education unions have joined forces to urge their members to campaign and vote against the far-right National Rally in a snap election called by president Emmanuel Macron.

In a televised address on 9 June, Macron said it was “time for clarification” after the National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen and her protégé Jordan Bardella, won around 31 per cent of the vote in the country’s election for the European Parliament.

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