Macron on Course for En Marche Majority

Fresh off the back of his presidential election and Trump-handshake victories, Emmanuel Macron has something else to celebrate. Yesterday, the French people (well, 49 percent of them), voted in the first round of parliamentary elections. In what is looking to be a landslide victory come the second round on Sunday, Macron's La République En Marche and its ally MoDem secured 32 percent of the total votes.

Unless the 51 percent of voters that didn't turn out for this round feel inspired to change the course of the election, En Marche is set to win as many as 430 of the 577 seats on offer. Only a few months ago, the country's political establishment was worrying about a political earthquake being caused by Front National. In the end, though, the status quo has been smashed by a very different kind of politics.

Macron's party didn't even exist in the last parliamentary election, but has in a whirlwind year taken almost full control of French politics, relegating ex-President Hollande's Socialist Party to just 9.5 percent of the vote. Front National, meanwhile, received an equally underwhelming 13 percent.