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National Assembly: Yaël Braun-Pivet’s election does not go down well with the left
The left denounces the alliance of certain Republicans with the Macronist camp to have Yaël Braun-Pivet re-elected as President of the National Assembly on Thursday, July 18.
(France 2)
The left denounces the alliance of certain Republicans with the Macronist camp to have Yaël Braun-Pivet re-elected as President of the National Assembly on Thursday, July 18.
Yaël Braun-Pivet was re-elected President of the National Assembly on Thursday, July 18. As she spoke about the massive vote of the French, Sophia Chikirou (LFI) interrupted her: “The French did not vote for you”. On the left, this re-election is not going down well. Boris Vallaud, president of the PS group in the National Assembly, believes that Emmanuel Macron’s friends are refusing to listen to the voters. “It is basically a form of blindness of what remains of Macronism in the face of the message that the French people have sent them.”he assures.
According to André Chassaigne, MP (PCF) for Puy-de-Dôme, NFP candidate, the victory of Yaël Braun-Pivet is a “denial of democracy”He claims that the French vote was “robbed by an unnatural alliance.” The left castigates the Republicans who supported the Macronists. This complicates the situation for the race to Matignon.
