France’s Macron set for biggest majority since De Gaulle, poll shows
Paris — Emmanuel Macron’s party is set to win the biggest parliamentary majority for a French president since Charles de Gaulle’s 1968 landslide, a survey of voter intentions for the coming legislative elections showed on Tuesday. Such a majority would give Macron’s government a strong mandate to push ahead with economic reforms, starting with a pro-business overhaul of France’s labour code, a notoriously difficult area of policy to agree with trade unions. Macron’s centrist Republic On The Move (LREM) party, which launched in April last year and has revolutionised the French political scene, was seen scoring 29.5% of the vote in the June 11 first round, the Ipsos Sopra-Steria poll found.
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