French President elect Emmanuel Macron today fulfilled his promise to draw half of the candidates for his Republic on the Move party for next month's legislative elections from civil society.<br/><br/>The party, which had never fought an election until it propelled Mr Macron to the Presidency on the 7th of this month, also kept a pledge to have a balance of male and female candidates in an announcement by party Secretary General Richard Ferrand at a news conference. <br/><br/>It named 214 of each sex in a preliminary list of 428 candidates.<br/>