PARIS: He’s the man with the Midas touch -- and French President Emmanuel Macron looked set to prove it again Sunday, when his party was projected to sweep into parliament with one of the biggest majorities in the country’s post-war history.

Just four weeks after taking office and 14 months after founding his Republique en Marche (Republic on the Move) party, his candidates are poised to dynamite the traditional parties that have dominated French politics for half a century.

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