Paris - France voted a record number of women into parliament, election results showed on Monday, after President Emmanuel Macron's victorious Republic on the Move (LREM) party fielded a gender-balanced candidate list.
The centrist party, La Republique En Marche, which was created previous year, clinched 361 seats out of 577 in the National Assembly, giving it an absolute majority following the final round of the parliamentary elections in France.
Jean-Christophe Cambadelis announced he was stepping down as Socialist Party leader, saying the party would have to rebuild itself from the top down.
The more traditional Conservative and Socialist parties lost several seats and could find it hard to form a competing block against La République en Marche.
Marine Le Pen, leader of far-right National Party, made her entry to the National Assembly along with seven other far-rightists.
Camus praised Macron's achievements in winning the presidency and securing the majority in the parliament's lower house, but added that the low turnout at both rounds of the parliamentary elections remained a problem.
Even though it is one of the strongest political forces in France, claiming more than a quarter of the electorate and pushing its leader into the presidential runoff in two consecutive ballots, the party had just two seats in the last assembly.
The party Macron founded just 14 months ago has caused a political natural disaster even if the winning score was considerably lower than the 470 seats predicted by some pre-vote surveys.
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"France now has a strong president with a strong majority in parliament".
The result on Sunday cemented En Marche's power: Macron's party will control 360 seats in parliament (out of 577), obliterating the establishment Republican and Socialist parties, which got 130 and 46 seats respectively. A large portion of these new parliamentarians are new to national politics and this reinforces the sense that a wholesale political revolution has taken place.
However, Florian Philippot, the party's vice-president and Le Pen's right hand man, who has been at odds with some in the party line over its European strategy, failed to win the seat he was fighting for.
The LREM win is big enough to give the new president a good chance of weathering the inexperience and diversity of his new political army, and to push forward with bold and controversial labour reforms, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Paris.
While Macron has to contend with a number of public grievances and concerns, including security, disappearance of industries and concentration of opportunities in the biggest cities, some commentators point out that things are not that bad either. The Socialist Party and allies won just 44, their lowest in decades. And in Sunday's election, the party known for its anti-immigrant and Euroskeptic views won just eight seats, despite hoping to receive 15 in order to form its own parliamentary group.
He also said dissent would not be tolerated among the dozens elected on the Macron party ticket, including many newcomers such as 24-year-old law school graduate Typhanie Degois.
Ms. Le Pen, a former Presidential contender, said that: "President Macron may have won the majority of parliamentary seats, but he ought to know that his ideas are not the majority in the country and that the French will not back a project that weakens our state".
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