French President Emmanuel Macron (C) attends a defence council meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 18, 2017. REUTERS/Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool
PARIS (Reuters) - A parliamentary majority looks to be within reach for centrist French President Emmanuel Macron in next month's parliamentary election, opinion polls indicated on Thursday, as his cross-partisan government held its first meeting.
Macron's election as president on May 7 smashed a decades-old left-right grip on politics and has left the conservative Republicans (LR) and the Socialists in disarray. But he needs a win for his fledgling party in legislative elections to implement his policies.
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