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Farage claims pro-Brexit momentum after divisive UK vote

By JILL LAWLESS vative lawmaker to enter
GREGORY KATZ the race for the top job.
Associated Press “First and foremost, we
LONDON (AP) — British eu- must deliver Brexit,” he said.
roskeptic Nigel Farage said Boris Johnson, the current
Monday that his new Brexit favorite to replace May,
Party’s victory in the Euro- tweeted: “The message
pean election should spur from last night’s results is
Britain to leave the Euro- clear. It is time for us to de-
pean Union even without liver Brexit.”
a divorce deal — a call Most businesses and econ-
echoed by many senior omists think leaving the EU
Conservatives, stung by with no agreement on de-
their party’s humiliating de- parture terms and future
feat. relations would cause eco-
Farage’s single-issue party nomic turmoil and plunge
and pro-EU forces com- Britain into a recession. But
bined to trounce Britain’s many Conservatives think
two dominant political par- embracing a no-deal Brexit
ties in the European Parlia- may be the only way to win
ment election, as angry back voters from Farage’s
voters blamed the ruling party. Labour paid for a
Conservatives and the op- Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, center left, speaks to the media at an event to mark the gains his fence-sitting Brexit policy
position Labour Party for the party made in the European Elections, in London, Monday, May 27, 2019. in which it dithered over
country’s Brexit impasse. Associated Press whether to support a new
With complete results an- voters for failing to deliver new leader, would be able the EU on time. referendum that could halt
nounced Monday, the Brexit in March as planned to take Britain out of the British Prime Minister Theresa Brexit. Some senior Labour
Brexit Party had won 29 of — were in fifth with under 28-nation bloc on the cur- May, who is stepping down figures said after the party’s
the 73 British EU seats up for 10% of the vote. rently scheduled date of as Conservative leader weak performance that it
grabs and almost a third of The election leaves Britain’s Oct. 31. next month after failing to must now firmly back a new
the votes. On the pro-EU EU exit more uncertain than “The Conservative Party deliver Brexit, said the “dis- referendum on Britain’s de-
side, the Liberal Democrats ever, with both Brexiteers are bitterly divided and I appointing” result of the parture from the bloc.
took 20% of the vote and and pro-EU “remainers” consider it to be extremely European vote “shows the Party leader Jeremy Cor-
16 seats — a dramatic in- able to claim strong sup- unlikely that they will pick a importance of finding a byn has long resisted a new
crease from the single seat port. The result raises the leader who is able to take Brexit deal, and I sincerely referendum, but Labour
in won in the last EU elec- likelihood of a chaotic “no us out on the 31st Octo- hope these results focus economy spokesman John
tion in 2014. deal” exit from the EU — ber,” Farage said. minds in Parliament.” McDonnell suggested that
The opposition Labour Party but also the possibility of a He said his party — which But the election instead might change.
came third with 14.1%, fol- new Brexit referendum that currently has no members is likely to harden the un- He said the best way of
lowed by the pro-European could reverse the decision and no policies apart from compromising stance of stopping a damaging no-
environmentalist Greens to leave. leaving the EU — would the candidates vying to deal Brexit was “going
, who captured nearly A triumphant Farage said “stun everybody” in the succeed her. On Monday, back to the people in a ref-
12.1%. The Conservatives he doubted the Conser- next British general election Home Secretary Sajid Javid erendum, and that’s what I
— apparently blamed by vatives, who are seeking a if the country didn’t leave became the ninth Conser- think our members want.”q

French far-right makes big demands on Macron after small win

By ELAINE GANLEY tured 23 seats in the Euro- cial and economic justice
SYLVIE CORBET pean Parliament — one that protesters say cannot
Associated Press less than her party won in be found in the economic
PARIS (AP) — If French far- the 2014 election it handily changes Macron is tak-
right leader Marine Le Pen won. But Sunday night’s win ing to modernize France’s
gets her wish, her National had added value because economy. The critics see
Rally party, victorious in the her main opponent was Macron as “president of
European Parliament elec- the president of France the rich.”
tion, will force a dissolution and her populist allies in Le Pen insisted she wasn’t
of France’s own parliament Europe, on a roll but not a seeking revenge against
and lure opponents to her wave, opened the door to Macron, who defeated her
cause, enlarging her base. enlarging their small group in France’s 2017 presiden-
But there’s one major road- in the European Parliament tial election. Macron “put
block: French President Em- — a potential double win. his weight into this battle ...
manuel Macron. The strongly pro-EU Macron and lost,” Le Pen declared.
His government immedi- Far-right National Party leader Marine le Pen delivers a speech considers his party’s score In addition to saying that
ately made it clear Monday at the campaign headquarters, Sunday, May 26, 2019 in Paris. honorable, given that Euro- Macron must dissolve the
that Macron won’t dissolve Associated Press pean elections have often French parliament, Le Pen
the National Assembly and gin — in France’s European sion of creating a national- served domestically as a wanted a proportional
will continue to implement Parliament vote Sunday ist force that counts in both protest vote. The president voting system more favor-
planned reforms. — a ballot that was also France and Europe. has faced down weekly able to her party put into
Le Pen narrowly defeated considered a very timely Her National Rally and protests for six months from France’s lower chamber —
Macron’s centrists — by national survey of the two Macron’s Republic on the the grassroots yellow vest where she serves as one of
just under a one-point mar- rivals. It fueled Le Pen’s vi- Move parties both cap- movement, seeking so- eight party lawmakers. q