France’s Macron is about to expand his power in a remarkable way

19 June 2017 11:04 am

(c) 2017, The Washington Post · · Jun 17, 2017 - PARIS - One is a female bullfighter. Another is an acclaimed mathematician who likes to dress like the Mad Hatter. Half are women, many are minorities and most are not career politicians.  These are the candidates of En Marche (Onward), the party created a little more than a year ago by newly elected President Emmanuel Macron. It is now poised to sweep Sunday’s final round of parliamentary elections and fundamentally recast French political life.