France: Yaël Braun-Pivet elected president of the National Assembly, a first
Yaël Braun-Pivet, of the Renaissance party, photographed at the start of the work of the new National Assembly in Paris, this Tuesday, June 28, 2022. AFP - CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT
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Close to Emmanuel Macron, the Renaissance deputy for Yvelines Yaël Braun-Pivet, 51, was elected on Tuesday June 28 as president of the National Assembly.
She will be the first woman to exercise this function in the whole history of France.
Candidate of the presidential camp at the "perch", Ms. Braun-Pivet won in the second round with 242 votes, that is to say the absolute majority of the votes cast, in a vote by secret ballot.
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Yaël Braun-Pivet, a lawyer who worked for the Socialist Party before joining En Marche, left her duties as ephemeral Minister for Overseas Territories last weekend, taken over by the Prime Minister pending the next reshuffle.
The objective was to be elected to the presidency of the Assembly, and it is now done.
During the previous legislature, Ms. Braun-Pivet chaired the law commission.
She is now the first woman elected to the "perch", in a National Assembly without an absolute majority.
France is thus catching up on its considerable delay, almost all of its European neighbors having already had a woman in this position.
Candidate of the Ensemble! coalition, which holds the relative majority, Yaël Braun-Pivet first came first in the first round, obtaining 238 votes against 146 for Fatiha Keloua-Hachi of Nupes, 90 for Sébastien Chenu (RN), 61 for Annie Genevard (LR) and 18 for Nathalie Bassire, from the Liberties, Independents, Overseas, Territories group.
In the absence of an absolute majority, a second round of voting therefore took place, allowing Ms. Braun-Pivet to collect 242 votes this time, more than the necessary number, as announced by the new dean of the deputies, the elected Jose Gonzales National Rally.
This room “
has the face of France
”, reacted the person concerned.
Yaël Braun-Pivet hopes that the new Assembly will prefer to "
debate
" rather than "
fight
".
"
The French urge us to work together
," she recalled after her election.
“
The Assembly must be an opportunity for our country
”, considers the one who was still a novice in 2017, and who now finds herself on the “perch”.
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