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Politics: What are the groups in the National Assembly for?
The National Assembly is currently divided into three blocs, but the deputies, who will return in a week, will have to choose the group to which they will be attached. Explanations.
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The National Assembly is currently divided into three blocs, but the deputies, who will return in a week, will have to choose the group to which they will be attached. Explanations.
The National Assembly also tells its story with the colours of the political groups. 15 deputies are needed to create a political group. Each has meeting rooms and collaborators. “They are the ones who help us in the work of analyzing texts, proposing amendments”, explains Cyrielle Châtelain, EELV-NFP deputy of Isère. The Assembly finances more than a hundred collaborators for all the groups.
Depending on its weight, each political group has speaking time in the Assembly, to ask questions to the government. They can also create commissions of inquiry, often disturbing. For example on the Benalla affair, the McKinsey firm or the financing of the National Rally. Each group also has a parliamentary niche: one day per year, where they decide on the law that will be debated.
A group allows a line to be displayed. Sacha Houlié, for example, is trying to create a group to the left of the presidential majority, in order to have weight in the future. A sign of the importance of the groups, they are chaired by figures such as Marine Le Pen, Laurent Wauquiez and Mathilde Panot.
