Macron Under Pressure to Deliver as French Turnout Plummets

Macron‘s Republic on the Move and its allies won 350 seats in the 577-strong National Assembly, giving them the biggest majority in 15 years. But the number of voters turned off by the political process highlighted the urgency of the job facing the country‘s 39-year-old leader.

Sunday‘s turnout of 42.6 percent was the lowest ever for a French legislative election, and more than 10 percentage points below the previous record, a reminder that almost half of the vote in April‘s first round of the presidential election went to candidates opposed to the open borders and free markets of the European Union that Macron favors.