If the deputies are entering this week, they will not sit for the first time in public session until June 28. They will then elect the one who will chair the hemicycle.
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And now? After legislative elections marked by a rout of the presidential coalition and an arrival in force of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) and the National Rally (RN), the next few days will be marked by intense negotiations behind the scenes for The prestigious positions of this 16
The parties will first constitute their parliamentary group – it takes fifteen deputies to form one -, which allows them to access more means in their parliamentary work and speaking time in the hemicycle. Each political group will then have to elect its president. For La République en Marche (LRM), the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday. The deputies of the presidential party will have to find a replacement for Christophe Castaner, who wished to re-stack at the group, but who was defeated, Sunday evening, in the 2 e district of the Alpes-de-Haute- Provence. The MP for Yvelines Aurore Bergé could again stand for the position, after her defeat in 2020 against Mr. Castaner.
MODEM deputies like those of the Republicans will also meet on Wednesday. The socialists will meet on Thursday to elect their leader. The current president, the deputy Valérie Rabault, did not say if she intended to represent herself. On the side of the national rally, Marine Le Pen announced on Monday that she was breaking the presidency of the first RN group in the Assembly since 1986.
All of the deputies will then find themselves, Tuesday, June 28, at 3 p.m., for the opening in public session of the 16 e legislature. It will be inaugurated by the dean of elected officials, the deputy RN des Bouches-du-Rhône José Gonzalez, aged 79. During this session, the deputies will elect a secret bulletin and at the gallery the president of the National Assembly. He will succeed Richard Ferrand, beaten Sunday in Finistère. If some names are starting to circulate-the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the Minister Delegate in charge of Europe, Clément Beaune, the Minister of Overseas, Yaël Braun-Pivet, or the deputy of the French of the A foreigner, Roland Lescure -, the LRM deputy for the Somme, Barbara Pompili said on Monday that she “is thinking about” to run for the presidency of the assembly. “But, given the circumstances, everyone must find the place where they will be useful. And, I want to be useful,” said the former Minister of Ecological Transition of the Castex Government, on Public Senate.
Important issue
The next day, Wednesday, June 29, the twenty-two members of the office of the National Assembly must be appointed, the vice-presidents of the hemicycle, the quaestors in charge of the budget and the staff of the Palais-Bourbon … these posts will have to be distributed between the majority and the opposition in relation to their political weight on the basis of the election of the second round of the legislative elections. The election of the quaestors of the National Assembly will be particularly scrutinized after the defeat Sunday of two of them, the elected officials LRM Florian Bachelier and Laurianne Rossi. If the groups fail to agree on the distribution of key positions, a ballot will be organized for each function where the number of candidates is greater than the number of positions to be filled.
Thursday, June 30, it will be the turn of the eight permanent commissions of the National Assembly to elect their president and their vice-presidents. The chairmanship of the finance committee has an important issue since, since 2009, it has been devoted to “a deputy belonging to a group having declared an opposition”. The Nuts, with its 142 deputies, and the national rally and its 89 elected officials have already announced coveting the prestigious title.
In two weeks, around July 5, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne should deliver her general policy speech before the deputies, in order to exhibit her government program. Although she is not obliged to do so, she should then engage her responsibility before the hemicycle, who will grant, or not, confidence in M bounded and her government. If it is voted, elected officials will then be able to work on the first texts scheduled for July, such as the COVVI-19 health bill and that on purchasing power, the presentation of which has been postponed by the executive several times .