Yaël Braun-Pivet of Macron's centrist party has been re-elected as new President of the National Assembly with 220 votes,
Euronews reports.
Yaël Braun-Pivet of Macron's centrist party is reelected as the new President of the National Assembly with 220 votes against André Chassaigne who obtained 207 votes.
Braun-Pivet, 53, has been the speaker of the National Assembly since 2022 and she retained her post Thursday after three rounds of votes in the lower house of parliament.
She received the support of Macron’s centrist allies and of some conservative lawmakers seeking to prevent her leftist contender, a communist lawmaker, from getting the job.
Braun-Pivet is the first woman to hold this position. She previously served as Minister of Overseas Territories under Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne for two months in 2022 and has been a member of parliament since 2017.
France's influential lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, convened on Thursday to elect a speaker following chaotic snap elections called by President Emmanuel Macron that resulted in a hung legislature.
After two inconclusive rounds of voting, outgoing Speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet of Macron's centrist party received 210 votes, leftist coalition candidate and communist lawmaker André Chassaigne had 202 votes, Sébastien Chenu of the far-right RN came third with 143 votes.
The recent parliamentary elections split the assembly among three major political blocs: the New Popular Front leftist coalition, Macron’s centrist allies, and the far-right National Rally party, with none securing an outright majority.
