The Constitutional Council has already rejected a similar appeal filed by La France Insoumise, on the grounds that the Constitution does not give it the right to rule.
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Here we go again. The Constitutional Council was seized of a new appeal against the re-election of the President of the National Assembly Yaël-Braun Pivet, on Thursday, August 1. And this time it is Marine Le Pen, the president of the National Rally (RN) group in the Assembly, who is behind it, the Constitutional Council specifies on its website.
The day before, the Sages rejected a similar appeal filed by La France Insoumise (LFI) to cancel the vote for the presidency of the Assembly. The deputy of the presidential camp Yaël Braun-Pivet had been re-elected in the third round with 220 votes, ahead of the communist André Chassaigne (207 votes) and the RN Sébastien Chenu (141 votes), but LFI had estimated that this victory was due in particular to the votes of “17 deputy ministers”which represents “a violation of the separation of powers” in the eyes of LFI MP Mathilde Panot.
The Constitutional Council rejected this appeal, stating that it was not competent to deal with this matter. “No provision of the Constitution or of an organic law adopted on its basis gives the Constitutional Council jurisdiction to rule on such a request”the court said.
