Paris: Independent French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said yesterday he would field candidates in all constituencies in June parliamentary elections and would welcome individual candidates from other parties.
Macron, a centrist whose rise in opinion polls is worrying leftwing and rightwing candidates in the presidential race, said he would launch a call for applications online for all those who would like to run in the parliamentary election under the colours of his En Marche (Forward) party.
The election in the lower house of parliament will come on the heels of the April and May presidential election.
“En Marche will field 577 candidates,” the 39-year old ex-economy minister told a news conference.