We spent the first day of the new legislature in the Assembly

It's kick-off!

This June 28, 2022, at 3 p.m., was the real start of the 16th legislature of the Fifth Republic.

The new deputies elected on June 12 and 19 were (almost) all gathered to choose their president, in this case, for the first time, their president.

has pitched its tent in the gardens of the Bourbon Palace to tell the first round of the rest of the life of the National Assembly.

Story and anecdotes of a busy first day.

Journalists and young stars

It's the crowd of great days in the small press room of the National Assembly, even more in the room of the Four Columns and the room of the Pas Perdus, famous "mixed zones" where journalists, in particular television, can converse with the deputies and deputies.

Alongside those present for the occasion, there are those who are more familiar with the places and mysteries of the institution.

“I'm expecting a flat stage of the Tour de France today.

We'll wake up for the sprint,” one of them explained.

While the session does not start until 3 p.m., the journalists are already crawling early.

Some were already there for the Nupes intergroup meeting in the morning.

Deputies who pass are still rare.

But that is not trivial: "Those who arrive very early at meetings are always those who want to speak to journalists", explains another colleague, faced with the early arrival of certain young deputies who have the gift of business cards. easy.

But we can attract attention in a more political way: the ecologist deputy of Lyon, Marie-Charlotte Garin, for example, chose to come to sit for this premiere with the dress worn by Cécile Duflot in 2012. Dress which had won her a few whistles.

Louis Boyard, the youngest deputy in the Assembly, also from the Nupes, assessor by right of the day poll, ostensibly refused to shake hands with the deputies of the RN whom he met at the podium.

The divisive discourse

There is one who is the “legitimate star” of this day: it is José Gonzalez.

As at the beginning of each legislature, before the election of the president or the president of the National Assembly, the debates of the lower house are briefly chaired by its oldest member, José Gonzalez this year, therefore.

The deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, 79 years old since April 28, comes from the RN.

He's not really from the new marinist guard: he's been in the party since the 1970s. By virtue of his age, he has the right to make a small statement from the Perchoir.

A not really neutral statement: José Gonzalez, pied-noir born in Oran, spoke of his native land from which he was "ripped".

"I left a part of my France there", at the independence of Algeria in 1962, he said, interrupting himself for a moment under the influence of his emotion.

We can understand the surprise of part of the audience for the applause that follows.

Out, Gonzalez persists and signs: “Come with me to Algeria in the Djebel, I will find you many Algerians who will tell you: when are you [the French] coming back.

The discomfort is intense.

José Gonzales, dean of the Assembly: "Come with me to Algeria in the Djebel, I will find you a lot of Algerians who will tell you: when are you [the French] coming back" And: "I am not there to judge whether the OAS has committed crimes or not” pic.twitter.com/XzCTO9NE2D

— Nicolas Massol (@nicolasmassol1) June 28, 2022

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First parliamentary return and we are quickly in the mood.

The dean of the national assembly of the RN begins a welcoming speech full of nostalgia for French Algeria.

He tells us that he left a piece of France there.

I'm already nauseous.

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annoying neighbors

The first day of a new legislature of the National Assembly necessarily has a back-to-school side: we do not always know who we are going to sit next to.

Because the deputies do not yet sit by political groups, but in alphabetical order.

Every five years, observers laugh at certain explosive neighborhoods.

In 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was alongside Emmanuelle Ménard, the far-right MP for Béziers.

This year, note, for the good mouth, that Sandrine Rousseau, the green MP, and Fabien Roussel, the communist found themselves side by side.

Just like Aurore Bergé, the president of the LREM-Rennaissance group and Ugo Bernalicis, rebellious from Lille.

This does not prevent certain discussions between opponents and opponents, such as between Hervé Berville, Breton macronist, and Sophia Chikirou, rebellious Parisian.

That's good, everyone says it, in this Assembly without a majority and torn, we will have to discuss.

The next game to win

Tuesday is not over and everyone is already thinking of Thursday.

Thursday is the election of the presidents of the eight standing committees of the National Assembly.

Among them, the Finance Committee, whose presidency must go to an opposition group.

The RN, with its 89 deputies, claims it, as the first opposition group.

Except that the Nupes, in four groups, brings together 151 elected officials.

If, as she promised and as is the custom, the majority does not vote, it is Eric Coquerel, designated by the union of the left to run for the post, who should win.

But.

There is a "but": the press, and in particular

, echoed a so-called secret deal between LR and RN.

LR would retain one of the three posts of quaestors (those who manage the stewardship of the Assembly) against a vote for Jean-Philippe Tanguy, the RN candidate for the finance committee.

Eric Coquerel, serene, do not believe it for a moment.

He recalls that no LR vote should be missing for him to be beaten.

Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS, does not believe LR capable of crossing this Rubicon: “General de Gaulle would not turn over in his grave, he would do gliding flights.

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The awaited election

It would still be necessary to return to the main object of this day: the election to the presidency of the National Assembly.

The day, as we said, was going to be long: without an absolute majority, it was likely that we would have to wait for the… third round.

However, as each member votes by secret ballot, one by one, in alphabetical order, it takes between an hour and a half and two hours to vote count and finally announce a result.

Yaël Braun-Pivet, the candidate for Ensemble (the Macronist coalition), was of course the favorite but was not alone: ​​Annie Genevard, for LR, Fatiha Keloua Hachi, for Nupes, Nathalie Bassire, elected from Reunion, and Sébastien Chenu, from the RN, were also in the running.

The weak relative macronist majority putting a little spice in the parliamentary work, we are not close to a conspiracy theory.

Shortly before the start of the first round, a member of the Nupes claimed to have received "lots of phone calls from Olivier Véran" (now Minister for Relations with Parliament) to ensure that the Nupes would not vote at the last moment for candidate LR and thus beat the Macronist candidate in the third round.

During the counting of the first round, a new rumor: Sébastien Chenu would withdraw in the second round (because here, everyone can stay if he or she wants to).

Journalists do the accounts, calculators in hand: with one or two votes, there could therefore be an election in the second round.

Does the RN want to go home earlier,

The expected result

Sébastien Chenu withdrew and offered a faster-than-expected election to Yaël Braun Pivet, elected with 242 votes in the second round, against 144 for the Nupes candidate (slightly less than the 151 votes of the four groups of union of the left).

Yaël Braun-Pivet, the first woman to hold this position in France, did not hesitate to highlight the event in her very personal speech, and in front of her daughter in tears in the audience.

On a political level, the deputy for Yvelines therefore owes her election at least in part to the abstention of the RN.

It should also be noted that this election has not (yet) made it possible to identify the government's possible leeway.

In the first round, Yaël Braun-Pivet collected the 238 votes more or less expected, four more in the second round.

As an opening, we do better.

Appointment is already made for Wednesday,

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