French deputies re-elected on Thursday, July 18, the President of the National Assembly, Jael Braun-Pivvy, who belongs to the camp of the head of state. To achieve this, President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition reached an agreement with the Republicans, the traditional right-wing party of France.
Emmanuel Macron congratulated Jaël Braun-Pivvy on his re-election on the X social network page.
“Everyone who knows you knows that you respect diverse opinions and express diverse feelings.” – He wrote it.
Six people applied for France’s third most important post. In the first session of the new National Assembly, outgoing Speaker Brown-Pivvy won the third round of elections with 220 votes. The left-wing candidate who won the most seats in the election was Andre Chasagnou Received 213 votes. The candidate from the “new” right – the National Rally Party, led by Marine Le Pen, Sebastian Chenu Received 141 votes.
The reelection of pro-presidential centrist Yael Braun-Piff became possible after the Republicans withdrew their candidate.
“We take full responsibility. This means that we will not allow the presidency of an unconquered France and those who create chaos in the National Assembly.” Vincent JeanbrunThe center-right representative withdrew his candidacy before the third round of voting.
With the agreement on the parliamentary president, the possibility of the New People’s Front, the left-wing coalition that won the second round of parliamentary elections on July 7, forming a government has decreased.
The electoral alliance of the radical left Invictus France, the Communists, the Greens and the Socialists still hopes to rule France alone, despite not having the required absolute majority of 289 votes in the National Assembly, while the centrist camp of the president is trying to form an alternative majority with the center-right Republicans, which finished fourth in the National Assembly elections. But this alliance of pro-presidential centrists with the traditional right of France did not get an absolute majority of votes. The solution could be to split the New Popular Front and have the moderate leftists, or more precisely the traditional center-left elements from the Socialist Party (PS), form an alliance with the pro-presidential camp and the Republicans.
Due to the early elections, the French National Assembly, which consists of 11 factions, is clearly divided into three camps: the left, the pro-presidential centrists and the “new right”. However, none of these large groups has enough seats to form a government to run the country. The left has 190 seats. The centrist coalition led by Emmanuel Macron won 168 seats in the last election, losing its relative majority of 246 seats, while the new right-wing National Rally party from Marine Le Pen won 143 seats instead of 89 seats in the previous cycle.
On Tuesday, July 16, President Emmanuel Macron accepted the Prime Minister’s resignation Gabriel Attal But the outgoing ministers will stay on for a few more weeks, probably until the end of the Paris Olympics, which is around mid-August.
It is still unclear what kind of government will be formed in France in the autumn. For ten days, left-wing parties have been unable to agree on a new Popular Front candidate for prime minister. The most tense situation in the ongoing negotiations is between the radical left and moderate socialists, who are fighting for the position of the new Popular Front in parliament.
President Macron said at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that the presidential camp should propose a “majority coalition or a broad legislative agreement” involving the moderate left and the traditional right. In other words, the president seeks to split the New Popular Front and attract socialists to his camp. By voting for Yael Brown-Pivette, the Republicans formally expressed their agreement to such a coalition and admitted their participation in the new government.
Meanwhile, ahead of the election of the President of the National Assembly, the General Confederation of Labor called in central Paris to “respect the election” and hand over the positions of President of the National Assembly and Prime Minister to the New Popular Front. The unions will use their traditional methods – short-term strikes and mass demonstrations – to protest against different results.