French President Emmanuel Macron is celebrating a convincing victory in National Assembly elections that gives him the mandate to push through wide-ranging social and economic reforms. <br/><br/>Three-quarters of the assembly are new members and a record 223 of the 577 MPs are women. Mr Macron's fledgling La R'publique en Marche (LREM) won 308 seats with 43 per cent of the vote. But the 42.64 per cent turnout is a record low for modern-day France. <br/><br/>Together with its centrist MoDem allies, LREM now forms a bloc of 350 seats, well over the 289 seats needed to control parliament. The election result means that a party that only began life in April 2016 now has complete control of France's Lower House of Parliament and that means the President can press on with steering through his broad programme of reform.<br/><br/>In line with tradition, the government which was only formed last month under Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, will resign today and be replaced by a new team.