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In pictures: European election highs and lows

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In Manchester, Brexit Party supporters are overjoyed as results are displayed on televisions at the convention center.

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New Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe told Sky News the U.K. result is a “clear instruction from the British people” that they are reaffirming they want Brexit.

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls a snap general election after his leftist Syriza party suffered a severe beating in Sunday’s European and regional elections.

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Activists from Avaaz unveil their message outside the European Parliament building in Brussels as election results start to trickle in on Sunday.

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Supporters of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party in France celebrate as first projections are released on Sunday evening in Paris.

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League leader Matteo Salvini, once again holding a rosary, said during an impromptu press conference at his party’s headquarters in Milan that “millions of Italians have given us a historic mission. It’s not just us, it’s Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage too,” he said, speaking of the French and British Euroskeptics. “It’s time for change … Europe will change.”

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As the first results roll in, Manfred Weber, the top candidate for the EPP, watches speakers on stage at the CDU headquarters in Berlin.

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Exit polls predict that Germany’s far-right party, AfD, will finish with 10.5 percent of the vote, which would be an increase compared with the 2014 European election but a loss compared with the 2017 German general election. Across Europe, far-right, nationalist and populist parties are projected to make sizeable gains.

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In Spain, Juan Espadas, the mayor of Sevilla, celebrates the Socialists’ success in Sunday’s elections with the party’s regional General Secretary Susana Díaz.

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Lithuanian presidential candidate Gitanas Nausėda hugs his wife Diana after hearing that he won the runoff on Sunday evening in Vilnius.

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Sven Giegold, left, one-half of the German Greens’ lead candidate duo, celebrates exit polls on Sunday with co-leader of the Green party, Annalena Baerbock, center, in Berlin.

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Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party, speaks to a crowd in Warsaw as first results of Sunday’s election are announced.

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Voters cast ballots in the European Parliament election in Berlin on Sunday.

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Voters in Stockholm take advantage of a shroud of privacy inside a gymnasium on Sunday.

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A woman wearing a traditional Bollenhut hat stands out at a voting booth in Gutach, Germany.

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In Budapest on Sunday, bright colors rule — at least from the knees down — at this polling station in the 11th district of the city.

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A voter in traditional Bavarian dress ponders her choices at a polling station in Wildenberg, Germany, on Sunday.

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A child peers out from a polling booth in Bucharest on Sunday, as a man checks his ballot.

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The carpet at the Berlin headquarters of the German Christian Democrats reflects its standing in the EU.

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A member of Hungary’s satirical Two-Tailed Dog party dons a Donald Trump mask in Budapest on Sunday.

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The sun sets over the European Parliament building in Strasbourg Sunday night.


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