Macron on target to achieve parliamentary majority - poll

French President Emmanuel Macron's party is expected to win the most votes in the first round of June's parliamentary election, a poll showed on Tuesday which reinforced the similar pattern of previous surveys this week.

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) speaks with French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (C) and French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (R) after they went to the British Embassy in Paris to pay their respects the day after the Manchester attack REUTERS/Etienne Laurent/Pool

The Ipsos/Sopra Steria poll for France Television and France Radio said Macron's start-up Republic on the Move (LREM) party and its MoDem partner would get 29.5 percent of votes in the first round of the lower house parliamentary election.

This as French consumer confidence rose slightly more than expected in May to reach a near 10-year high, data released on Tuesday from the official INSEE statistics agency showed.

With concerns about unemployment stable, the improvement was driven by a spike in households' outlooks for the general economic situation, which also reached the highest level since August 2007.

According to the same INSEE poll the conservative Republicans and their partners in the UDI party were expected to get 22 percent, while the far-right National Front (FN) was seen in third on 18 percent.

The Ipsos/Sopra Steria poll showed the same picture as two earlier surveys this week which also showed Macron's party coming out on top in the parliament elections, which take place in two rounds on June 11 and June 18