ASSEMBLY. After the composition of the National Assembly and the arrival of the deputies, the news of this Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at the Palais Bourbon was marked by the election of several personalities at the head of the groups and by the appointment of Yaël Braun- Pivet as favorite for the perch…
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[Mis à jour le 22 juin 2022 à 21h15] The President of the National Assembly is almost known this Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Or rather the president. Yaël Braun-Pivet was appointed this evening by the deputies of Together! majority candidate for the election to the presidency of the National Assembly. The one who was appointed Minister of Overseas France last May in the Borne government won the internal majority vote by 105 votes in the second round against 85 for her opponent, the deputy for French nationals living abroad Roland Lescure. If she were elected president of the National Assembly next week following Richard Ferrand – the “perch” in political jargon -, Yaël Braun-Pivet would become the first woman to take up this position.
The National Assembly has also appointed several group presidents on Tuesday and Wednesday. After the Socialists’ refusal to merge into a common “Nupes” group yesterday, Mathilde Panot was appointed head of the insubordinate France group and André Chassaigne was reappointed to head the “Communists and Related” group. Aurore Bergé was elected president of the LREM group, Laurent Marcangeli at the head of the Horizons group and Jean-Paul Mattei of that of the MoDem. Olivier Marleix will lead the LR group. Here is what to remember on the evening of June 22 on the news at the Assembly.
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The President of the National Assembly is the fourth personality of the State and is appointed by a secret vote of all elected during the first session of the new National Assembly. This year the election has been set for June 28, 2022, the date of the first public session and the opening of the sixteenth legislature. In addition to a representative role, the President of the National Assembly acts as arbiter during debates between deputies by ensuring compliance with the rules and ensuring equality of speaking time. Patron of the Assembly, he is by extension the president of other internal groups in the chamber such as the Bureau or the Committee for the evaluation and control of public policies, but he is also the president of the Congress when the Parliament is complete. with the Senate.
The fourth character of the State also has a power of appointment, being able to choose a member of the Constitutional Council at each renewal of the latter, but also two of the six people who sit on the Superior Council of the Judiciary.
Traditionally, the President of the Assembly comes from the majority party, since he is elected by all the deputies. Within Ensemble!, six deputies are candidates: Yaël Braun-Pivet, Roland Lescure, Barbara Pompili, Joël Giraud and Sophie Errante. This Wednesday, June 22, at the end of the afternoon, the deputies of the majority had to vote to designate, among these six personalities, their official candidate for the “Perch”. Former Minister Eric Woerth, passed in the majority and a time candidate, withdrew at the end of the day.
Since Tuesday, June 21, the deputies elected to the legislative elections have access to the Assembly, where they have until next week to decide on the final composition of their parliamentary groups at the head of which they must elect group presidents. It is necessary to have at least 15 deputies to form a group, which then gives several advantages such as financial and material means, additional collaborators, or a minimum speaking time during debates or questions to the government. Here are the presidents already elected:
- Mathilde Panot, group of insubordinate France
- Aurore Bergé, LREM group
- Olivier Marleix, LR group
- Laurent Marcangeli, Horizons group
- Jean-Paul Mattei, MoDem group
- André Chassaigne, communist and related group
Here is the complete list of the 577 deputies elected to the National Assembly during the 2022 legislative elections. It is possible to scroll the lines of the table to discover all the names of the elected officials and their score in the second round of the ballot.
What is the new composition of the National Assembly?
At the end of the legislative elections, the composition of the National Assembly was unprecedented: deprived of an absolute majority, the presidential confederation Together! will have to come to terms with the opposition parties in order to have its laws passed. While the absolute majority is located at 289 deputies, Together! has only 245. The Nupes does not obtain a majority either with just over 130 deputies. The National Rally achieves the highest score in the history of the party with 89 seats in the National Assembly. Here is a representation of the balances of this new Assembly:
The Republic on the Move and its allies therefore lose a hundred of the 346 LREM deputies placed in the National Assembly in 2017. Something to shake up the majority and who must now negotiate, in particular with the elected LR-UDI, who now have 64 deputies.
What could be the alliances in the National Assembly?
Deprived of an absolute majority, the government will have to try to convince deputies from opposition groups to vote in favor of some of its laws, as Emmanuel Macron requested in a televised speech on Wednesday. Far from the Assembly, the Head of State hastened to launch consultations with all the party leaders represented in the hemicycle, including those of the opposition, on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 June. Christian Jacob (LR), Olivier Faure (PS), Marine Le Pen (RN), Fabien Roussel (PCF) Julien Bayou (EELV) or even Adrien Quatennens (LFI) followed one another at the Elysée to discuss with the president the possibilities agreement on certain texts. For her part, on the evening of the legislative results, Elisabeth Borne was busy, according to her entourage, calling opposition deputies likely to agree with the presidential majority.
“I reach out to Republicans on both the right and the left,” said the new president of the LREM deputies in the Assembly, Aurore Bergé, just after her election as head of the group this Wednesday as well. Similar speech in the media for several ministers of Elisabeth Borne: on RMC, the minister in charge of relations with Parliament Olivier Véran invited this Wednesday, June 22 to “widen the majority on the left and on the right”, soon imitated on Europe 1 by Clément Beaune, Minister for Europe. Should the majority seek alliances with the National Rally in the Assembly? “No, there cannot be an alliance of circumstance with the National Rally”, decided Clément Beaune. “We will not put ourselves in situation of having to depend on the votes of the FN to win a majority in Parliament … Nor, moreover, of LFI”, indicated Olivier Véran. Invited on BFMTV Monday June 20, Eric Dupont-Moretti, Minister of Justice, however, showed himself less categorical, evoking the possibility of “moving forward together” with the RN on certain texts.
For the time being, no party agreement has been reached with opposition groups: Christian Jacob, whose LR party was considered the best placed to be part of a coalition, has rejected any “government pact” during his interview with Emmanuel Macron. He also rejected Edouard Philippe’s proposal for a “grand coalition” in the National Assembly. The other parties have pledged to pass the laws that they believe would go in the right direction for the country. We are therefore moving more towards ad hoc alliances, text by text.
After the legislative elections, the timetable for the new Assembly was tightly fixed. The end of the term of the current National Assembly has been set for June 21. The deputies who had sat since 2017 at the Palais Bourbon saw their functions end, except for re-election. The new Assembly was to take office the next day, June 22, 2022. June 28 was set as the date for the entry of deputies into the Assembly. The one from which the newly elected or re-elected parliamentarians sit for the first time in the hemicycle. The election of the president or the president of the National Assembly, in place of Richard Ferrand, beaten in the legislative elections, was scheduled for 3 p.m. Each political group will also submit on this date the list of its deputies and relatives and will specify the name of its president.
The following day, 26 June, the President of the Assembly and the group presidents will decide together on the organization of the Bureau and will process the candidatures for the functions of Vice-President, Quaestor and Secretary as well as those for the seats of the eight standing committees. to be named during the public session at 3 p.m. The distribution of seats in the National Assembly will take place on June 30, because each group has its place in the hemicycle.
The week of July 4, Elisabeth Borne will normally hold her general policy speech before the deputies, a delicate moment. The deputy LFI, Eric Coquerel has already announced that the opposition will table a motion of censure against his government as of July 5. If this motion fails and things continue as planned, MPs will get “hard” the following week, July 11, with the review of purchasing power measures. A new bill on Covid-19, supposed to take over all the measures to fight the epidemic (braking measures, statistical tools such as test databases, etc. which expire on 31 July) should be at the Palais Bourbon the week of July 18.
Other texts should arrive at the start of the five-year term, such as that on renewable energies (aimed at simplifying procedures, particularly on offshore wind power) or Lopmi, the orientation and programming bill of the Ministry of Interior. Their examination will take place either in July, before the summer break, or in September. In the meantime, another date should occupy the candidates of these legislative elections: August 19 deadline for filing their campaign accounts with the commission responsible for controlling them.
Who will be the chairman of the Assembly’s finance committee?
The day after the result of the legislative elections, the National Rally, now the leading parliamentary group in the hemicycle, showed its willingness to ask for the chairmanship of the National Assembly’s finance committee. This commission is the only one that traditionally, since 2008, belongs to a member of the opposition. Its president is elected in a vote in which the majority presidential party usually abstains. Therefore, since 2008, the presidency has always returned to the first opposition group. But this year, the Nupes has every intention of recovering this strategic post, the four parties of the left alliance having, together, more deputies than the National Rally. Unless the Republicans decide to vote for a candidate from the RN, the finance committee of the Assembly could therefore return to a deputy from Nupes.
This Wednesday morning, in an interview with Le Parisien, Senate President LR Gérard Larcher said that this commission “should return” to the RN, as “the first opposition group”, justifying: “We do not have the same story and do not share the same values, but they are elected officials of the Republic. On the side of Eric Woerth, deputy of the Oise formerly LR rallied to the macronie, the concern is rather to see the finance committee of the Assembly fall into the hands of the left: “The Insoumis obviously have in mind to do tax audit. This is not what I heard from the National Rally”, he pointed to the Figaro.
The chairman of the finance committee of the National Assembly will be elected in a vote on June 30, the day on which all the committees will be allocated.