Story highlights President Emmanuel Macron's party expected to win majority of seatsA landslide victory will help Macron carry out political and economic reforms(CNN) Polls opened Sunday for France's legislative elections and President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party is projected to win a huge majority in Parliament. is expected to win more than 400 seats in the lower house when the Sunday's second round of voting concludes. After a strong showing in the first round , Macron's La Republique En Marche party,is expected to win more than 400 seats in the lower house when the Sunday's second round of voting concludes. Macron's party, founded just a year ago, won the first round of elections on June 11 with less than half of eligible voters going to the polls. Turnout again looked set to be low for the second round.

Source: CNN June 18, 2017 09:28 UTC