— Emmanuel Macron was projected to win a large parliamentary majority Sunday, with the centrist party he founded little more than a year ago triumphing at the polls. Although the result was expected after an earlier round of voting last week, the rise of Macron’s pro-Europe, pro-business party represented a watershed moment in modern French politics. Macron’s Republic on the Move party was projected to win at least 355 of 577 total seats in France’s National Assembly, according to French polling institutes. National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who lost the presidential race to Macron, won a seat in Parliament in Sunday’s elections. In interviews with French newspapers, the leaders of France’s most powerful labor unions have all warned Macron not to go too far too fast.

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2017 18:34 UTC