PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is confident her party will win an absolute majority in parliament, form a government and impose limits on what President Emmanuel Macron can do to support Ukraine, she said days before voting starts.

Macron will remain president after a snap legislative election on June 30 and July 7, which he called after Le Pen's National Rally (RN) trounced his centrist Together alliance in European elections, but may have to share power with his foes.

"On the choice of prime minister, the president has understood he doesn't have much of a choice, as Jordan Bardella will have a mandate from the French people," Le Pen told regional newspaper Le Telegramme de Brest, referring to her party's pick for the job of head of government.

Opinion polls consistently suggest the anti-immigrant, eurosceptic RN has a comfortable lead in terms of share of the popular vote, with a left-wing coalition in second place and Macron's centrists in third.

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