With Yaël Braun-Pivet, Macron’s party re-elected as President of the Assembly

July 19, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. Updated July 19, 2024 at 4:36 p.m.

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Back to square one. Macronist Yaël Braun-Pivet was re-elected President of the National Assembly on the evening of July 18. She obtained 220 votes at the end of the third round, ahead of the communist André Chassaigne (designated sole candidate for the New Popular Front), who only received 207 votes, and Sébastien Chenu (National Rally), with his 141 votes.

While six deputies were candidates in the first round, the result of this election reflects the three political blocs that are now facing each other in France: the presidential clan, which brings together the Renaissance and Horizons deputies, but also those of the Republicans, the elected representatives of this party having all voted – without abstaining – for Yaël Braun-Pivet; the coalition of the New Popular Front; and the National Rally.

This is therefore a form of victory for the Macronists, while they had suffered a series of defeats in the European elections and the early legislative elections, and had not managed to obtain a majority of deputies on July 7. It is indeed thanks to a game of alliance with the right of the Republicans that Yaël Braun-Pivet was able to be re-elected, returning the Assembly to the previous situation, as if nothing had changed since the dissolution of the National Assembly, and that the New Popular Front had not come out on top in the legislative elections — even if they certainly did not manage to obtain an absolute majority of deputies.

“Elysian Maneuvers”

In a press release entitled “A dissolution for nothing”, the representative of the New Popular Front André Chassaigne denounced “the Elysée maneuvers with the LR”, which according to him gave rise to “a real democratic coup de force which betrays the verdict of the ballot boxes”.

Distribution of standing committees

Now that the perch has been assigned, the 577 deputies will choose the bureau of the National Assembly on July 19, by voting for six vice-presidents, three quaestors and twelve secretaries. This bureau enforces the internal regulations of the institution.

Finally, on July 20, the eight standing committees (cultural affairs and education, economic affairs, foreign affairs, social affairs, defense, sustainable development, finance and laws) will be divided among the different groups.

Who will be Prime Minister?

Since the presidency of the National Assembly will not go to a representative of the New Popular Front, the left is now worried that the post of Prime Minister will slip away from it. “It is to be feared that the forfeiture with regard to the voters will continue and that the President of the Republic will find in this election [au perchoir] a pretext to appoint a Prime Minister from its ranks,” wrote André Chassaigne in his press release.

“No, it’s not over,” assures Alexis Corbière, MP for Seine-Saint-Denis, ex-LFI, now member of the environmentalist group, interviewed by the newspaper Le MondeNegotiations between the four parties forming the New Popular Front coalition have been stalling since July 7, however, with the rebels and the socialists unable to agree on a candidate to propose to Emmanuel Macron for Matignon.

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