Sunday, June 25, Francis Letellier receives Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, in “Sunday in politics”. The deputy of the V district of Yvelines speaks about the Wagner militia, the license at 17, but also the division of the National Assembly.
In Russiathe Wagner militia and its leader Prigozhin have tent of join Moscow to challenge Vladimir Putin, before turning around. At the beginning of May, the French deputies had voted a resolution so that the militia be included in the Union’s list of terrorist organizations eEuropean. “A resolution has a symbolic side, because it has no binding power (…), but this shows that the National Assembly is mobilized and united behind Ukraine”says Yaël Braun-Privet.
“Peace, it is discussed (…) Ukraine ardently wishes for peace, and it will discuss one day with all its neighbors”she continues.
“I am at the head of a delegation, made up of several political groups (…) it is important that parliamentary diplomacy shows the diversity of political forces, unanimous on the subject. When we are abroad, we carry the voice of France”details the President of the National Assembly on the role of the institution in the war in Ukraine.
“Against the right to vote at 16”
The week was marked by the announcement by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to pass the license from the age of 17. For Yaël Braun-Privet, this should not however open the debate on the majority at 17 years old. “The license at 17 is a good thing, it aims to give our young people more ability to move (…). You don’t have to line up all the numbers. I am against the right to vote at 16, for example”she explains.
Ie collective “LEarth Uprisings” To was dissolved by the Minister of the Interior, Wednesday May 21. Gerald Darmanin relies on the separatism law of 2021, which was there to fight movements that could carry out terrorist attacks. “I believe that the cause is fundamental, but does not justify the exercise of violence. This dissolution is perfectly justified and necessary”she notes.
For a year, the debates within assembly are complicated, and have been markeds by the frequent use of article 49-3 on all budgetary texts, and on the text on pensions. “It is the Assembly that have wanted the French. Ours to succeed in building majorities, that’s what we do on classic texts”advances Yaël Braun-Privet.
“Today we have agreements text by text (…). 60% of bills, over the past year, have been adopted unanimously”she continues.