French president-elect Emmanuel Macron’s party unveiled several hundred candidates for key parliamentary elections, with more than half never having held a political post and half women.

However, the list was incomplete and contained no heavyweight centre-Right figures, despite Mr Macron's stated aim of creating a party spanning the reformist Left-Right divide.

Next month's two-round legislative elections will decide if the 39-year old ex-banker, who beat far-Right Marine Le Pen last Sunday, can carry out labour reforms or face becoming a lame duck.

Among the 428 candidates unveiled on Thursday, half are women and 52 per cent have never held a political post. Only 24 of these are MPs in France's 577-seat parliament, all of them Socialist.