French president Macron’s party wins 1st round, aims for big parliamentary majority

‘President Emmanuel Macron’s political camp has secured a significant victory in the first round of parliamentary elections, which could land the one-year-old political movement with as much as three-quarters of lower house seats when the second round results are announced on June 18.

Macron’s La Republique En Marche (REM) and its allied Democratic Movement (MoDem) secured 32.32 percent in the first round, ahead of the Republicans and their allies with 21.56 percent. The National Front (FN) received 13.20 percent in a vote which had lower than 50 percent turnout, official final results released early Monday morning by the interior ministry revealed.’

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