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.
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.
First woman elected to this position
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 this Hemicycle where history has been written so many times, together we have just opened a new chapter. A chapter in the great book of our parliamentary life. A chapter from the great book of equality between women and men. Thanks !#DirectAN pic.twitter.com/MWyU7eWdh8
– Yaël BRAUN-PIVET (@YaelBRAUNPIVET) June 28, 2022
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 interested party.
Yaël Braun-Pivet hopes that the new Assembly will prefer “ discuss ” rather than “ to fight “. ” The French enjoin us to work together “, she recalled after her election. ” The Assembly must be an opportunity for our country », Estimates the one who was still a novice in 2017, and who now finds herself at the “perch”.
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With agencies