Macron team announces candidates for June parliamentary election

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She earned more than 10.5 million votes on Sunday, roughly double the number of votes her father won running for the same party in 2002.

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Macron joined President Francois Hollande in a commemoration of the formal German defeat in World War II.

Hamon, who gained popularity in recent years by leading a group of rebel Socialist lawmakers who opposed Valls, was a distant fifth in the first round of the presidential election after garnering just over 6 per cent of the votes, the Socialist Party's worst result since 1969.

Mr Putin, who hosted Marine Le Pen during the election campaign, said he was ready for "constructive joint work on current bilateral, regional and global issues".

"So there might be a drop in the Front National vote, but if the situation is bad in 2022 [at the time of the next presidential election], they could rise again".

The losers of the presidential election are aiming to capitalise on a general lack of enthusiasm for the pro- business Macron - whom many voters backed exclusively to bar Le Pen - to bounce back in the parliamentary vote.

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He has said he was aiming for an absolute majority in the lower chamber in June's elections.

European Council President Donald Tusk also congratulated Macron, saying the French have chosen "liberty, equality, and fraternity". Three former prime ministers in other parties were ousted in primaries.

Macron, an ex-banker, served as economy minister in a Socialist government under Valls, but left to make his successful bid for president at the head of his new party on a promise to turn the page on old Left-versus-Right politics. A possible change to the name of her National Front party may be on the cards after she vowed to lead a "new force" into the parliamentary elections.

So will we see a new France and what does his victory mean for Europe?

The list of candidates, many of them young and half of them women, represented Macron's first stab at creating a parliamentary power base with his Republic on the Move party to help him push forward with reforms once in office.

May has called an early election for June 8, arguing that her Conservatives need a bigger majority in order to stand firm against - and strike deals with - the EU.

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