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Paris: President Emmanuel Macron remained on course for a landslide majority in France's parliamentary election on Sunday and turnout will be even lower than in the first round, an Odoxa opinion poll showed on Friday.
"We've shot down everything that represented the system before and we're trying something else", said historian Didier Maus, who sits on France's Constitutional Council.
REM has fielded a mix of centrists and moderate left- and right-wingers drawn from France's established parties, as well as complete newcomers including a star mathematician and a former bullfighter.
The Republicans are expected to be the main opposition in parliament, with polls predicting they will garner between 80 to 132 seats.
The survey by Opinionway Orpi also forecast disappointment for the far-right National Front.
The Opinionway poll projected the conservative The Republicans party and its allies would be the leading opposition grouping with between 70 and 90 seats, while the Socialist Party, in power until last month, would secure just 20 to 30 seats.
The firebrand and influential leader of new far-left party La France insoumise (France Unbowed), Jean-Luc Melenchon, is also seeking a seat from the southern port of Marseille.
One London attacker had been investigated
Metropolitan police, however, indicated in their statement that Zaghba was not a "subject of interest" before the attack. The Guardian said he was a pastry chef who had lived in Dagenham in east London , not far from where Butt was residing.
"There might be a correction", said Emmanuel Riviere from the Kantar Sofres polling group.
"Of course the door remains open, always open until the Brexit negotiations come to an end", the Independent quoted President Macron as saying when asked if Britain could yet stay in the EU.
Following a working lunch with the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Macron said in a joint news conference that he welcomed the "good deal" reached between Greece and its creditors to avoid a fresh financial crisis. "How can you imagine that the population, half of which didn't go to vote. agrees to the directives that are the result of this situation?"
Remarkable indeed has been the psephological swing, recalling the Bharatiya Janata Party's resurgence from two seats in the Lok Sabha in 1984 to a majority in the late Nineties.
After the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's victory in the USA presidential election, Rutte victory in the parliamentary election and rising French political star Macron dashed hopes of populists, advocates of anti-EU platform, to reign key European countries.
One of Mr Macron's biggest ambitions is to reform France's labour laws to reduce unemployment from its current rate of 10 per cent.
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