Macron expected to win big as France's election marathon enters final stretch

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Macron expected to win big as France's election marathon enters final stretch

18.06.2017

Voters in mainland France are casting their ballots on Sunday for the 577-member National Assembly, in the second and final bout in France's legislative election. Pollsters predict that Emmanuel Macron's (pictured above) 15-month-old centrist La Republique en Marche (The Republic on the Move, LREM) party will claim between 400 and 470 seats. The president cast his ballot in the northern seaside town of Le Touquet on Sunday morning, with his political ally and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe voting in Le Havre, the northern port city where he had long served as mayor.
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Last Sunday's first round of voting saw the party garner 32.3 percent of the vote. In French elections, if no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round, a runoff is held between the top two vote-getters.

Should LREM manage to secure the majority it's predicted to on Sunday, this would allow Macron to easily confirm his government, headed by Philippe. Macron would also be able to push through his liberalizing reforms that are opposed by both parties on the left and the far-right National Front.
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Rival parties have spent the last week trying to motivate their supporters, alerting them to the risks of a presidential supermajority, after an unprecedented 51.3 percent of registered voters did not cast their ballots in the first round.
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The Republicans are expected to be the main opposition in parliament, with polls predicting they will garner between 80 and 132 seats.