The deputies Sébastien Chenu and Hélène Laporte notably benefited from the votes of the majority to access the office of the National Assembly, to the detriment of the left alliance.
Le Monde
The deputies of the new National Assembly proceeded to the election of the office of the Palais-Bourbon, Wednesday, June 29, the day after the arrival of the deputy of the Yvelines Yaël Braun-Pivet as president of the institution. Six vice -presidents, three posts of quaestors and twelve secretary places were to be filled to allow parliamentarians to start their legislative work – the election of the offices of the eight permanent commissions, Thursday, will constitute the last step.
After a controversy in 2017 on the allocation of an opposition position, the majority had revised the rules, establishing a point system depending on the position to be filled. Under the test for the first time, the new rules have not led to an agreement. Despite a three-hour meeting of the Conference of Presidents in the morning, the situation was equivalent in the early afternoon “to a most complete disorganization when they could have resulted in a balanced sharing,” deplored Bertrand Pancher , Co-president of the independent group freedoms, independent, overseas and territories.
All of the positions had to be the subject of a public session ballot, from 3 p.m., the number of candidates being higher than the numbers of available places. MPs Sandrine Rousseau and Benjamin Lucas have, in fact, added their candidacy for the vice-president in extremis, “to block the far right”, they justified. The two candidates ultimately collected only thirty votes.
eric Ciotti re -elected to the quouture, Eric Woerth entered it
Thus, six vice-presidents were elected and will have the mission of relaying the president to direct the sessions: Valérie Rabault (Socialist Party), Caroline Fiat (La France Insoumise), Elodie Jacquier-Laforge (Democrat), Naïma Moutchou (Horizons), Sébastien Chenu and Hélène Laporte (national rally). The elected socialist will occupy the position of first vice-president. “Tambouille”, “denial of democracy”, “sordid combins”: the deputies of the new popular and social union denounced, after the results, an agreement which, according to them, would have aimed to marginalize the left.
Elected to the vice-presidency with 290 votes for Mr. Chenu and 284 votes for M me laporte, the candidates of the RN mathematically benefited from the votes of the presidential majority and the right since the RN group has only 89 members. Benjamin Lucas thus mentioned “a sad day for the Republic and its values” at the microphone of the parliamentary chain.
Marie Guévenoux and Eric Woerth (Renaissance), as well as Eric Ciotti (Les Républicains) were then elected quaestors, in charge of finances of the assembly. The latter recovers the position reserved for the opposition, to the chagrin of the deputy Annie Genevard, who wanted the Republicans to benefit rather from a vice-presidency as a key post and that she can thus continue to preside over debates like this was the case during the previous legislature. The elected official said her dissatisfaction via Twitter , judging that “arithmetic has a good back” and that “the majority is alone in the face of the NUPS and the RN”.
Faced with accusations of negotiations between Renaissance, LR and RN to distribute the positions, Aurore Bergé, president of the majority group to the Assembly, returned the ball to the camp of the Nuts. “They wanted to present two ecological candidates who did not even retain the votes of all of their intergroup, they did not even vote for their own candidates, it is rather surprising,” she reacted .
At the end of the day, the office of the National Assembly was completed with the election of the twelve office secretaries. Seven majority deputies and three deputies of the cloud were elected, alongside an elected representative Les Républicains and an elected representative of the Libertés, Independent, Overseas and Territories group.