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1:19 p.m. : The Socialist deputies call for the creation of a “delegation for the rights of the child” in the Assembly and the Senate. This request was addressed by the president of the group, Boris Vallaud, and the deputy Isabelle Santiago to the president of the newly elected Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet. It must be said that in France, “a child is raped every hour. Also in France, a child is killed in the family circle every five days and at least 50,000 minors are victims of abuse per year.are alarmed the elected socialists in their mail.
12:51 p.m. : At the end of a two-hour meeting this morning, the various parliamentary groups of the National Assembly failed to agree on the distribution of the posts of vice-presidents, quaestors and secretaries, according to information from France Televisions. A vote is therefore scheduled for this afternoon, at 3 p.m., item by item, before the distribution of the standing committees, tomorrow.
12:30 p.m. : Decisive week in the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon. After the election of the President of the National Assembly, it is now the undecided vote of the President of the Finance Committee which is the focus of all eyes. For this coveted position, which is statutorily up to the opposition, the Nupes and the National Rally are seeking to impose their respective candidates, Eric Coquerel and Jean-Philippe Tanguy. Explanations from our journalists Antoine Comte and Thibaud Le Meneec. (XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / AFP)
11:11 a.m. : Jean-Michel Blanquer, former Minister of National Education, has planned to send an appeal to the Constitutional Council today, after his defeat in the first round in the 4th constituency of Loiret. His request concerns irregularities in the campaign of the candidate Nupes Bruno Nottin. This information from The Republic of the Center has been confirmed to France 3 Centre-Val de Loire.
10:40 a.m. : The boss of the PCF Fabien Roussel announced, on Europe 1, that he was going to file a bill for “immediately reduce gasoline taxes by 35 cents” . He also wishes “tax the profits of oil companies”, including TotalEnergies.
08:53 : “I am convinced that voters [des députés LR] do not want it to be Mr. Coquerel, the extreme left of the extreme left, who is at the head of the Finance Committee.
MP RN Marine Le Pen assures that there have been no discussions with elected LRs with a view to electing Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN) as head of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly. “There is no pact”she declares on franceinfo, while putting the deputies LR “in front of their repinability”.
08:20 : “We are going to ask for an additional effort to lower prices at the pump from the major energy companies, including French ones.”
Clément Beaune wants these companies to participate “collective effort”in the context of high inflation. “I believe that at this stage it is better to find a negotiated solution. The goal is not for the State to take a tax and then pay it back to consumers, it is for it to drop quickly and sharply for the consumer. “
08:04 : “We will have to negotiate on the right with LR and on the left as well, with constructive environmentalists in particular”➡️ #Les4V @CBeaune
08:40 : An outstretched hand. “We are going to have to discuss to find a majority with responsible people, concerned about public finances, concerned about social justice”declared the Minister Delegate for Europe Clément Beaune, this morning on France 2. “I wish we could do it with constructive socialists or ecologists as well as with reasonable right-wingers.”
08:10 : This speech aroused many reactions, especially in the ranks of the left. “Saying ‘I don’t know whether to judge the crimes, real or not, of the OAS’, that’s called historical negationism”said MP LFI Alexis Corbière. “The National Assembly, today, was presided over by a man who makes historical negationism on a difficult moment in the history of France.”
08:10 : “In 1962, I left part of my France there“. The dean of the deputies, José Gonzalez, 79, yesterday kicked off the work of the new National Assembly, referring in particular to French Algeria. Asked by the press, he then declared “having little or no knowledge of what OAS is“the Secret Army Organization, responsible for more than 2,200 deaths in Algeria and 70 in France.
(CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)
08:08 : Meanwhile, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is still seeking “compromise” to sustain the majority, by consulting the leaders of the parliamentary groups in the National Assembly. Today she will receive André Chassaigne (PCF), Mathilde Panot (LFI) then the leader of the RN deputies, Marine Le Pen, before the “independents” Bertrand Pancher and Christophe Naegelen.
08:08 : “I obviously welcome the election of a woman to the perch, it is a completely encouraging symbol. Nor does anyone believe that this election is due solely to the fact that Yaël Braun-Pivet is a woman. She was president of the Law Commission and has done a recognized job there.”
Yaël Braun-Pivet was elected President of the National Assembly yesterday, and becomes the first woman to occupy the perch. Annie Genevard, vice-president of the National Assembly and deputy vice-president of the Republicans, commented on this election on franceinfo.