Poll puts Macron's party on top in French parliamentary vote
POLITICS
By Zhao Hong

2017-05-30 15:22 GMT+8

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French President Emmanuel Macron's party is expected to win the most votes in the first round of June's parliamentary election, a poll showed on Tuesday which reinforced the pattern of previous surveys.

The Ipsos/Sopra Steria poll for France Television and France Radio said Macron's start-up Republic on the Move (LREM) party and its MoDem partner would get 29.5 percent of votes in the first round of the lower house parliamentary election.

The conservative Republicans and their partners in the UDI party were expected to get 22 percent, while the far-right National Front (FN) sat at third with 18 percent.

French President Emmanuel Macron hosts the first cabinet meeting at The Elysee Palace in Paris on May 18, 2017. /VCG Photo

The Ipsos/Sopra Steria poll showed the same picture as two earlier surveys this week which also showed Macron's party coming out on top in the parliament elections, which take place in two rounds on June 11 and June 18.

(Source: Reuters)

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