The first round of elections to France’s National Assembly are being held on Sunday, with President Emmanuel Macron seeking to increase the relative majority currently held in the lower house by his centrist movement. Polling booths open at 8 am (0600 GMT), with 49.3 million people eligible to vote. Voting in a number of overseas territories has already started. Macron called early elections after the far-right National Rally (RN) made large gains in elections to the European Parliament at the beginning of this month. The RN is leading in pre-election polling ahead of the new leftist alliance,…