The Renaissance deputy of Seine-et-Marne will occupy one of the key positions of the new government while the presidential coalition has lost the absolute majority in the National Assembly.
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He will occupy one of the most strategic positions of this five -year term. The deputy of Seine-et-Marne Franck Riester (Renaissance) is the new Minister Delegate in charge of relations with Parliament, announced the Elysée on Monday July 4. He takes the place of Olivier Véran, appointed government spokesperson. It is Mr. Riester who will have to make the link between the government and the deputies in a national assembly fragmented in ten groups and where the presidential coalition has lost an absolute majority.
While the hope of coalition with one or more parties, as the President of the Republic wished, Emmanuel Macron, seems to fly away, Mr. Riester will be part of the majority negotiators to try to tear down majorities By going to convince for each text deputies going “from the Communist Party to the Republicans”, excluding rebellious France and the National Rally, as the Head of State wished. A task that promises to be difficult while together! – which includes the Renaissance groups (ex -Republic En Marche, LRM), Democrat (Modem and Independents) and horizons and related – has 250 deputies, far from the 289 necessary to have the absolute majority.
Founder of the Agir Party
Elected deputy in the 5 e district of Seine-et-Marne since 2007 (he was re-elected on June 19 with 53 % of the votes), Mr. Riester was part of the contingent of elected officials Right who joined Mr. Macron in 2017, while not teaching LRM. In the fall of 2017, he founded, with nineteen members from the Republicans, including Thierry Solère, the Center right Party Act, which he situates both “in opposition and in the majority”. Mr. Riester took over this at his founding congress in September 2018, before entering the government for the first time as Minister of Culture.
While IGR has created a new group in the National Assembly in May 2020, Mr. Riester was appointed in July 2020 Minister Delegate in charge of attractiveness and foreign trade in the wake of Jean Castex’s arrival in Matignon. A few weeks ago, he had been renewed to this function in the first government team of Elisabeth Borne, before being appointed on Monday to the ministry responsible for relations with Parliament.