With a record low turnout, less than 50% of eligible voters are expected to cast their votes in today's first round of the French parliamentary election...
... projections show Macron's Republique en Marche party winning by a landslide, set to hold a giant majority with anywhere between 400 and 445 seats in the 577-member National Assembly.
As Reuters adds, according to two pollsters, IPSOS and Kantar Sofres, his Republic On the Move (LREM) party and its ally Modem were set to win well over 400 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly.