Mr Macron, who won the second round of France's presidential contest on Sunday with 66.1 per cent of the vote, needs to quickly transform his political movement into a vehicle capable of winning a majority or at least garnering enough seats in Parliament to govern or form a coalition. Macron has promised that half of those candidates will be new to elected politics, as he was before his victory. It will release its list of 577 candidates on Thursday.
French president-elect Emmanuel Macron waves at supporters as he arrives to deliver a speech in front of the Pyramid at the Louvre Museum in Paris on May 7, 2017.
Benjamin Griveaux, the spokesman of the En Marche! movement, told the Europe 1 broadcaster on Tuesday that the procedure for declaring one's intention to run was the same for everyone and that Valls' candidature had not yet been confirmed by the party's responsible committee. He aims to neuter the opposition by luring moderates from both sides of the political spectrum. France is deeply divided and the election result reflected a very disturbing rise in ultraright support, particularly in the rust-belt areas of the country.
Yesterday, the president-elect joined French President Francois Hollande to commemorate the end of World War II.
"The euro couldn't sustain the rally as it took to consolidating a 3 percent spike since France's presidential vote started two weeks earlier", said Joe Manimbo, senior market analyst, at Western Union Business Solutions in Washington.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, who missed out on the presidential runoff by 620,000 votes, said his France Unbowed movement has failed to reach an accord with the Communist Party and will present its own full slate of candidates in the parliamentary election.
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Indeed, it is only by virtue of Falcinelli’s prowess in the final third that Crotone still remains in contention to survive. In Romelu Lukaku, Koeman has a player with the capability of firing Everton to far headier heights than seventh place.
Hollande repeatedly gripped Macron's arm and patted him on the back in a father-and-son-style show of affection, a tone that is likely to be seen during the official Élysée Palace ceremony where he will hand over power to Macron on Sunday.
President Francois Hollande warmly greeted President-elect Macron in their first public meeting since the victory.
In the afternoon, thousands of leftwing and trade union demonstrators gathered in central Paris to warn against changes to labour laws.
This week former prime minister Manuel Valls shocked his Socialist party by saying it was "dead" and announcing he wanted to be a candidate under Macron's banner.
Hassan A. Mourad took to Facebook to post a comparative image between Macron as an embryo in 1977 and the current Algerian President, Abdulaziz Bou Teflika, now 80, but 40 at the time of Macron's birth year.
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