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With new president, new faces for French parliament

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French President-elect Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony commemorating the abolition of slavery, in Paris, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) (The Associated Press)

French President-elect Emmanuel Macron poses with supporters after a ceremony commemorating the abolition of slavery, in Paris, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) (The Associated Press)

Richard Ferrand, the secretary-general of Macron's Republic on the Move, attends a press conference for the upcoming National Assembly elections, at the party headquarters in Paris, Thursday, May 11, 2017. President-elect Emmanuel Macron's party has revealed a list of 428 people running for parliament next month, half of them women, most who have never held elected office, as he tries to remake France's political system. (Eric Feferberg/ pool photo via AP) (The Associated Press)

The party of French president-elect Emmanuel Macron is unveiling an eclectic choice of candidates for next month's legislative elections.

They include the man who led the elite French police unit that took down an Islamic State group cell, a computer whizz who started working at age 16 and a farmer. All that's missing, it seems, are a butcher, a baker and a candlestick-maker.

The list of candidates being announced by the Republic on the Move party on Thursday marks a milestone in Macron's plans to repopulate the National Assembly with new faces and new ideas.

Macron's victory in the May 7 presidential runoff has reconfigured the political landscape with his winning campaign as an independent that upended decades of left-right politics in France.