French election 2017: latest polls tracker and odds

LATEST POLLS Emmanuel Macron is poised to win his second election victory of the year in Sunday’s legislative election. La République En Marche! (REM), Mr Macron's newly-founded party,

and its centrist ally Democratic Movement (MoDem) will win between 440 and 470 seats in the 577-member parliament, a Harris interactive-Indeed poll published on Thursday June 17 found. This

would represent one of the largest ever parliamentary majorities in post-war France, and would allow Mr Macron to push through with sweeping employment reforms unchallenged. Alain Juppe, the

former Republicans Prime Minister, is among the politicians who fear being crushed by a parliamentary monopoly. Mr Juppe said: “Having a monochrome parliament is never good for democratic

debate.” The Republicans and its right-wing allies are set to take between 60 and 80 seats. Marine Le Pen’s National Front is expected to take between one and six seats, with former

President Francois Hollande’s Socialists forecast to win between 22 and 35 seats. A separate poll for BFMTV found that 61 per cent of voters do not want REM to win a “crushing” majority,

saying that they would vote for a rival party in the second round in a bid to “rectify” the predicted result.  More than half of voters (53 per cent) said they were “worried” Mr Macron would

have too much power if his party won more than 400 seats, compared with 20 per cent who said they were “indifferent”. But 27 per cent of those interviewed said they “trusted” Mr Macron,

adding that they did not believe he would abuse his power. WHY IS FRANCE HAVING ANOTHER ELECTION? REM and MoDem won 32.3 per cent of the first round of voting last Sunday. The Republicans

and its allies won 21.5 per cent of the vote, with the Socialists and its left-wing partners on 9.5 per cent and the National Front on 13 per cent. Prime Minister Édouard Philippe declared

after the vote “France is back”, however just under half of Frenchmen turned out to vote. Turnout was 49 per cent, the lowest in six decades for a parliamentary vote. ODDS REM has been given

odds of 5/6 to win over 450 seats in the election at Betfair.