Braun-Pivet She was re-elected with 220 votesin front of the candidate communist André Chassaigne of the left alliance New Popular Front (NFP), which had 207 votes and the far right Sébastien Chenu, who came in third place with 141 votes.
The vote came after lengthy negotiations between the parties that make up the Congress, divided into three large blocks, and in the midst of a context of political tension, a week before the beginning of the Paris Olympic Games.
In this way, a new panorama is configured in the National Assembly and could be created new alliances to achieve majorities.
Controversy over the re-election of Yael Braun-Pivet
After the vote, Chassaigne questioned the choice of Braun-Pivet and considered that “the vote of the French” in the “it was stolen” by a “unnatural alliance” between the presidential party Renaissance and the right.
For his part, the far-right Chenu, of the match National Grouping (RN) led by Marine Le Penalso criticised the Parliament’s decision and pointed out that the choice of Braun-Pivet “he circumvented the will of the electorate” and it was a “victory of trickery.”
Chenu also denounced a “Unnatural alliance between the Macronists and the Republicans”criticizing that this conservative formation campaigned claiming to be the opposition to the president.
General elections: the composition of the French parliament changes
The two-round legislative elections of June 30 and July 7 reconfigured the composition of the French parliament and a great fragmentation, in which the NFP – the left-wing alliance that includes socialists, communists, environmentalists and the radical left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI) – came in first with 193 deputiesbut far from the absolute majority of 289 seats.
The centre-right alliance of Macron (164 seats) and the far right won 143 deputies.
The position of president of the National Assembly It consists mainly of Organize and moderate the debatesbut as the fourth most important person in the country he has key constitutional powers.
He NFP, Despite coming in first place in the second round, he failed to agree on a consensus candidate for the premiership due to the differences between The Insoumise Francewhich is the main force, and the socialists.
Source: Ambito
