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MACRON LOYALIST ELECTED PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER IN ‘COUP’ AGAINST
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Roger McKenzie
July 19, 2024
Morning Star
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_ Unions and left-wing activists staged protests across France on
Thursday to put pressure on President Macron to choose a prime
minister from the New Popular Front. _

Lawmaker Yael Braun-Pivet delivers a speech after she has been
reelected as speaker of the National Assembly after three rounds of
votes in the lower house of parliament, July 18, 2024 in Paris,

 

The election of a member of French President Emmanuel Macron’s
coalition as Assembly speaker was a “coup,” left-wing lawmakers
said on Thursday.

Yael Braun-Pivet from President Macron’s Renaissance party-led
coalition was re-elected speaker of the National Assembly, a post she
has held since 2022.

After three rounds of voting Ms Braun-Pivet won 220 votes whilst
Communist Party deputy Andre Chassaigne, the candidate of the largest
group in parliament, the New Popular Front, secured 207 votes.

Ms Braun-Pivet received the support of some right-wing lawmakers
seeking to prevent the communist winning the role.

The parliamentary election in July failed to give any of the three
major political blocs — the New Popular Front (NPF), Mr Macron’s
vehicle Together and the far-right National Rally party — an
outright majority.

Ms Braun-Pivet told lawmakers after her election: “We need to be
able to seek compromises.

“You will always find me by your side to do this, to dialogue with
you, to innovate with you, to find that new path that the National
Assembly must take.”

But Mr Chassaigne blamed “unnatural alliances” for having
“usurped the popular verdict expressed at the polls.”

Leader of the left-wing France Unbowed party Jean-Luc Melenchon said:
“The vote in the Assembly is the new coup of a clique ready to do
anything to keep all the powers. A red line is crossed with the
illegal vote of ministers. The entire democratic system is called into
question.”

He said: “The President must get his act together and appoint a
Prime Minister from the NPF, because it is the voters’ decision.”

Unions and left-wing activists staged protests across France on
Thursday to put pressure on President Macron to choose a prime
minister from the NPF.

There is no firm timeline for when the president must name a new prime
minister and Mr Macron has so far refused to be drawn on when he is
intending to appoint to the role.

* French elections
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* Emmanuel Macron
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* New Popular Front
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