French voters gave the presidency last month to a former banker who had never held elective office in his life.

In about a week, this wave of support looks poised to hand Emmanuel Macron, the youngest French head of state since Napoleon, the keys to the rest of the country in the form of the strongest parliamentary majority in decades.

According to Cui Hongjian, director of the Department for European Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, Macron will have a significant amount of political capital to spend on the promises he made during his campaign.