Macron's party set for huge French parliamentary majority

French President Emmanuel Macron's fledgling party is set to trounce France's traditional main parties in a parliamentary election, according to projections after the first round today, and secure a huge majority to push through his pro-business reforms. The results, if confirmed, deliver a further crushing blow to the Socialist and conservative parties that had alternated in power for decades until Macron's election in May blew apart the left-right divide that had shaped French politics. Pollsters said well over 30 percent of voters had picked Macron's party in the first round, a result that they said could deliver him as many as three-quarters of the seats in the lower house after next week's second round. That would give France's youngest leader since Napoleon a powerful mandate with which to make good on campaign pledges to revive France's fortunes by cleaning up politics and easing regulations that investors say hobble the euro zone's second biggest economy. "The French people have shown that they want us to move quickly," said government spokesman Christophe Castaner. Both the Socialists and the conservative Republicans party warned voters against concentrating too much...