The second and final round of French parliamentary elections was under way on Sunday, with President Emmanuel Macron aiming to keep an absolute majority for members of his centrist party La Republique en Marche (The Republic on the Move, LREM). The poll will determine whether Macron can enact his political agenda with relative ease in his second term, or whether he will need to engage more with the forces on the left. Turnout is considered a key factor. In the first round of voting, which eliminated all but the top two candidates for each seat, only 47.5% of the country’s 48.9 million voters b…