If Macron keeps on winning big, he will transform France

The first round of parliamentary elections suggests the new president will get the majority needed to push through radical reforms, say Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner.

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron’s one-man revolution in national and European politics continued this weekend. He will soon be able to add a huge parliamentary majority to his cause, if the results from the first round of the French parliamentary election hold. That appears very likely.

Eliminating the old right-left divide in French politics by uniting reformists of the left, the right, and the centre was the challenge that Macron set for himself in creating his En Marche! movement in April 2016, as part of his bid for the French presidency.