France's Macron on track for strong majority in parliament after first round of voting

French President Emmanuel Macron's new centrist party appears on its way to a strong majority in the powerful lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, after winning 32.3 percent of the vote in the first round of national legislative elections on Sunday. Macron's party, Le Republique en Marche, and its allied MoDem party together are projected to win up to 445 of the 557 seats in the National Assembly; 298 seats would be a majority. The center-right Republican Party came in second place,...