AFP, Prensa Latina and Europa Press

The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, July 21, 2024, p. 26

Paris. Despite a setback in the recent French legislative elections, President Emmanuel Macron’s bloc yesterday maintained control of six of the eight committees of the National Assembly, including the presidency of the chamber, a post held by Macronist Yael Braun-Pivet, thanks to an alliance with the right-wing conservative party The Republicans (LR).

The bloc that brings together left-wing parties, the New Popular Front (NFP), won 12 of the 22 seats, including two vice-presidencies. Macron’s alliance slightly outnumbers the left in terms of seats – 213 versus 193 – although it is far from the absolute majority of 289.

Meanwhile, the far-right National Rally (AN) party, led by Marine Le Pen, regretted not having won the presidency of any committee in the National Assembly, despite having 143 seats.

Le Pen criticized shameful maneuver the agreement between the Macronists and Laurent Wauquiez’s party – which won 47 deputies in the election – to grant the latter the representation to which the AN was legitimately entitledhe reproached.

The AN is the party with the largest parliamentary group, but has been left out of all important positions in the General Assembly. corruption pact The situation was defined by AN deputy Jean Philippe Tanguy.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, from La France Insoumise (LFI), described the vote as coup d’état by a clique willing to do anything to retain all powers. The entire democratic system is in questionhe wrote on social network X.

Meanwhile, Macron has yet to name a candidate for prime minister, and the left has been unable to reach a consensus on choosing its standard-bearer due to differences between its two main members: the Socialist Party and La France Insoumise.