PARIS — The French Parliament on Thursday approved a new two-month extension of the state of emergency that was initially declared in the aftermath of the Nov. 13 attacks in and around Paris.

The extension will cover two major sporting events taking place this summer in France — the Euro 2016 soccer tournament and the Tour de France cycling race. The events have prompted fear of additional terrorist attacks in a country still on high alert.

Forty-six lawmakers in the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, voted in favor of the new extension, with 20 against it. The Senate, the upper house, already approved the extension on May 10.

Image President François Hollande declared a state of emergency in France on Nov. 14, 2015. Credit... Gonzalo Fuentes/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Patrick Calvar, the director of France’s domestic intelligence agency, told a parliamentary committee on that same day that the Islamic State was “planning new attacks” and that the country could be assaulted by multiple bombings in crowded areas to create panic.