It doesn’t work. The day after the re-election of Yaël Braun-Pivet at the presidency of the National Assembly, the New Popular Front (NFP) is not digesting the news. Invited to TF1 on Friday July 19, the environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau called for “study all possible remedies” after this election. The Green MP criticises the president Emmanuel Macron for accepting the resignation of his government in a time that allows 17 resigning ministers to vote, while the left-wing candidate, the communist André Chassaigne, lost by 13 votes. Follow our live feed.
After the perch, the positions of power. The highly contested election of Yaël Braun-Pivet to the presidency of the Assembly barely over, the deputies are today tackling the distribution of the other key posts. The presidents of the groups have a meeting on Friday morning at 10 o’clock to try to agree on a distribution of the posts of six vice-presidents, three quaestors and twelve secretaries, who form with the president of the Assembly the Bureau, its highest executive body.
Divisions over the place to be left to the RN in the distribution of positions. The left wants to exclude the RN from key positions in the Assembly in the name of the “Republican Front”, the far right wants to assert its status, and Macron’s party is divided on the issue. In the event of disagreement, and if there are more candidates than positions, the Assembly would then prepare from 3 p.m. for a long series of ballots, potentially in several rounds.
André Chassaigne denounces a “democratic coup”. Following the re-election of Yaël Braun-Pivet as President of the Assembly, the Communist MP and left-wing candidate for the presidency, regretted, in a press release published on Thursday evening, “Elysian maneuvers with the LR” and one “democratic coup that betrays the verdict of the ballot boxes.” Invited to franceinfo on Friday, the communist also denounced a vote by the Republicans granted “in exchange for positions of responsibility.”