French voters are choosing legislators for the National Assembly in the second round of parliamentary elections expected to hand a huge majority to President Emmanuel Macron's new centrist movement, allowing him to advance his pro-business, pro-European agenda.
Le Pen's party won 8 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, dashing her one-time hopes of emerging as the main opposition to Macron's centrist Republic on the Move (REM) party.
Philippot, seen by some within the party as exerting too much influence over Le Pen, failed to win his seat on Sunday and may now find his position imperilled. Nearly all the ministers under former President Francois Hollande were punished at the polls, with voters electing to toss the party's political elite out of parliament. The party's leader, Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, immediately stood down.
NANTERRE, France Marine Le Pen should step down as leader of France's far-right National Front (FN) after disappointing results in the presidential and parliamentary elections, her father who founded the anti-establishment party said on Tuesday.
They predicted the conservative Republicans and their allies would form the largest opposition bloc with 125 to 131 seats, while the Socialist Party, in power for the past five years, and its partners would secure 41 to 49 seats, their lowest ever in the postwar Fifth Republic.
Macron's detractors point to a record-low turnout of just under 44 percent in Sunday's polling, saying he can not claim to enjoy a deep vein of support.
Closing with the reaction in the forex markets, as Asian markets opened for trading the euro received a modest boost, jumping to as high as $1.1208 to reach its highest for the day so far.
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National Front, Le Pen's anti-Muslim and Euroskeptic party, garnered eight seats in the election, two seats less than result predicted for the party in polls.
But with his twin victories in last month's presidential election and Sunday's parliamentary vote, he has routed the old political class.
Ferrand was a Socialist member of parliament who deserted the now-devastated party to join Macron's cause. Macron also wants the government to further intervene in the agricultural sector and the housing market, intends to introduce a permanent state of emergency (effectively reducing civil rights) in France, and favors military interventionism in Syria with a United Nations mandate.
Other questionable stances of Macron's include the introduction of a "Buy European Act", which would limit private-public partnerships to companies willing locate at least 50 percent of their production to Europe.
This provides Macron and his party, whose name means "Republic Onwards", a majority in parliament to pass economic reforms that he said during his presidential campaign were necessary to end the country's financial stagnation.
The new parliament will be almost six years younger on average, have a record 224 women lawmakers, and will be strikingly more varied in background - if politically less experienced.
The LREM win is big enough to give the new president a good chance of weathering the inexperience and diversity of his new political army, and to push forward with bold and controversial labour reforms, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris.
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