Emmanuel Macron is looking like more than a one-election wonder. On Sunday the new French President’s upstart political party, La République en Marche, swept the first round of elections for the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament. If the results continue through the second round Sunday, Mr. Macron will have a sturdy mandate to repair France’s broken economy. Turnout was a historic low 49%, but En Marche and its smaller centrist ally, Modem, qualified for the second round in nearly every constituency where...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 12, 2017 23:26 UTC