#GAReads | France elects a record number of women into parliament
by Richard Ying et Tangui Morlier [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
"France elects a record number of women into parliament":
France voted a record number of women into parliament, election results showed on Monday, after President Emmanuel Macron's victorious Republic on the Move (LREM) party fielded a gender-balanced candidate list.
Of the 577 newly elected lawmakers, 223 were female, beating the previous record of 155 set after the last election.