Discover the composition of the Assembly office, which has become predominantly left-wing, to everyone’s surprise

The New Popular Front has 12 representatives, with the remaining seats divided between the presidential camp groups (five), the Republican Right (three), and Liot’s independents (two).

To everyone’s surprise, the left won an absolute majority of seats in the National Assembly’s bureau, its highest executive body, on the night of Friday to Saturday, July 20. Chaired by Yaël Braun-Pivet, the bureau has a total of 22 members.

The New Popular Front (NFP) has 12 representatives, with the rest of the seats divided between the groups of the presidential camp (five), the Republican Right (three), and Liot’s independents (two). Here are the members of this institution, which has significant powers over the functioning of the lower house.

The Vice Presidents

They share with Yaël Braun-Pivet, who is President of the National Assembly and the Bureau, the responsibility of presiding over sessions in the chamber from the famous perch. They assign the floor, ensure that debates run smoothly, settle certain disputes and have the power to sanction other deputies during these sessions.

Their election was seriously disrupted on Friday by an incident in the first round. As the ballot boxes contained more envelopes than voters, the vote had to be cancelled and then reorganised.

The deputies ended up appointing the former vice-president Naïma Moutchou (Horizons), the LFI-NFP deputies Clémence Guetté and Nadège Abomangoli, the deputies of the Republican Right group (ex-LR) Xavier Breton and Annie Genevard, as well as the resigning Minister of Industry Roland Lescure (Ensemble pour la République, ex-Renaissance).

The Quaestors

The three members of the quaestorship hold the purse strings at the Palais Bourbon and have broad authority over the institution’s budget. “No new expenditure may be incurred without their prior notice”specifies the regulations of the National Assembly.

The Assembly has chosen a female trio to carry out these functions – “I think it’s a first,” greeted Yaël Braun-Pivet. Christine Pires Beaune (PS), Brigitte Klinkert (Together for the Republic) and Michèle Tabarot (Republican Right), three experienced elected officials, will assume these functions.

The secretaries

They monitor voting operations and the counting of certain ballots, either when an electronic vote has not worked, or when the form of a ballot requires a voting operation by individual ballot. This is the case in particular for the famous motions of censure, intended to overthrow the government.

The deputies chose as secretaries Stéphane Peu and Mereana Reid Arbelot (Democratic and Republican Left), Sébastien Peytavie, Sabrina Sebaihi and Eva Sas (all three members of the Ecologist and Social group), Gabriel Amard and Farida Amrani (both LFI-NFP), Iñaki Echaniz and Sophie Pantel (both PS), Lise Magnier (Horizons), Christophe Naegelen and Laurent Panifous (Liot).