French voters went to the polls on Sunday to pick the lower house's 577 members in the first round of parliamentary elections.
Polls open at 8am (06:00 GMT).
Given Macron's attempts to clean up French politics, he faced embarrassment on Friday when his small centrist ally, the MoDem party, was placed under preliminary investigation on suspicion of employing fake parliamentary assistants at the European Parliament.
How do the parliamentary elections work?
Each constituency represents approximately 125,000 individuals.
Most races involve several candidates in the first round and are whittled down to two in the second round.
What is expected to happen? Movement shortly before announcing he would run for president.
France's President Emmanuel Macron has a photo taken with members of the public as he arrives at his house in Le Touquet, eastern France, Saturday, June 10, 2017.
Pollsters projected a disastrous result Sunday for the Socialists that held power in the last parliament and that the conservative Republicans could end up with fewer than 130 seats.
A Macron victory on this scale would be the biggest majority in France since Charles de Gaulle's landslide win in 1968. Next came the conservative Les Républicains party with around 21 percent.
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Macron's Republic on the Move party is projected to win a strong majority in the second round June 18.
The far-right National Front of recently defeated presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is predicted to return between one to four lawmakers.
The Republican party is forecast to be the second most popular party, winning 21.5 per cent of the vote. But with 50 of its MPs not standing again, it could lose more support to REM.
The French interior ministry said voter turnout hit about 41 percent by late afternoon, marking a significant drop since the 2012 vote that saw 48 percent voter participation.
Her party only has two seats in the parliament. He refreshed the country's political landscape.
But it could be an uphill battle - especially after her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen withdrew from political life, dealing the party a blow in its southern heartland.
He has drawn candidates from a cross-section of society with a former bullfighter, a Nobel Prize victor and a an ex-fighter pilot all hoping to win a seat.
The government needs a new National Assembly in place to vote on the bills.
Polls are set to close at 6 p.m.in some towns and 8 p.m. local time in Paris and other large cities (3 p.m. ET).
Macron professes to be neither right nor left.
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