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LIVE – Legislative: the National Rally claims the finance committee in the Assembly – Liberation

Legislative elections 2022dossierIn the aftermath of the second round of legislative elections, France rocked into an unprecedented political sequence with a National Assembly without a clear majority, in which the National Rally entered into force.

par LIBERATION, AFP et Laure Bretton

How to govern without an absolute majority? Who to replace the beaten ministers? What political compromises to make and with whom? Will the left stay united? What program for the far-right deputies, who will be more than 80 to sit in the hemicycle? In the aftermath of the legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron finds himself facing a very fragmented National Assembly. Condemned to compose.

10h01

Ex-minister Elisabeth Moreno also defeated. The former member of the government in charge of gender equality did not succeed in being elected as a deputy in the 9th constituency of French people living abroad. With 45.93% of the vote, Elisabeth Moreno gave way to Karim Ben Cheïkh, candidate of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), who won 54.07%. Read here.

9h53

Olivier Faure not unhappy with the socialist score? Apostrophized on social networks the night before about the lack of benefits from the Nupes alliance for his party, the first secretary of the PS preaches for his chapel this Monday morning: “Socialists will be more numerous in this legislature with 32 seats against 25 previously, not counting related parties.”

9h31

Karl Olive first to the Assembly. “We have to get to work quickly, we owe that to the French” most “everything is not going to be easy” without an absolute majority: freshly elected deputy for Yvelines, the macronist Karl Olive arrived first, Monday June 19 at the Palais-Bourbon. “You have to sweep in front of your door: it’s not the result we expected” et “we will have to do in the lace” to be able to act, agreed in front of the press that which was until then mayor various right of Poissy. Leave this town hall “is a heartbreaker” most “I will bring new field software”said Karl Olive, who grew up in “popular neighborhoods” and created the association of elected officials Field generation. While the results of the second round of legislative elections clearly raise the question of Emmanuel Macron’s ability to be able to govern and get the promised reforms passed, the neo-deputy quotes de Gaulle: “The action is the men in the midst of the circumstances.”

9h29

A very hot climate for Borne?

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9h15

Macronie no longer gets out of its ni-ni. “Unfortunately, we had cases where it was very difficult to define who was the most Republican candidate. Watch a duel between François Ruffin and the National Rally”, dared Aurore Bergé on France Info on Monday, the day after the historic breakthrough of the far right in the National Assembly. And the Macronist deputy from Yvelines added that there is a “permeability between the different extreme left and extreme right electorates”.

9h01

Who to chair the Finance Committee? The newly elected MP for Oise and spokesperson for the National Rally Philippe Ballard demanded on Monday that the chairmanship of the National Assembly’s finance committee be given to a deputy from Marine Le Pen’s party. This post “has been vested for fifteen years in the majority opposition party”, he recalled on France Info. Gold, “we are the first party in France et “the first opposition party, so the finance committee is up to ushe estimated. It would be a very good thing, the least of things, and it would be the application of our texts”. Since 2007, the crucial post of chairman of the finance committee has traditionally belonged to the largest opposition group. It was occupied under the previous legislature by the deputy LR Eric Woerth – passed in the spring in the ranks of the Macronist majority.

8h47

Fesneau not against the idea of ​​an RN chairing the finance committee. Former Minister of Relations with Parliament, now Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau surprised his world on Monday morning by estimating that the chairmanship of the finance committee of the National Assembly could well be chaired by a far-right deputy during of the new legislature: “This commission belongs to the largest parliamentary group. Even though it doesn’t please me, it imposes itself on you and me. The question is not whether it makes me happy, the question is the Constitution”.

8h29

In Seine-Saint-Denis, the box full of Nupes. Twelve deputies for twelve seats to take: the left alliance snatches everything in the department, a “great grand slam”according to MP Clémentine Autain, interviewed on France Info.

8:18

Richard Ferrand goes down in history (in spite of himself).

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8h07

Phew of relief at Clément Beaune’s HQ. Outpouring of joy, long embraces, raised fists, eyes reddened with emotion… In a bar with flowery walls in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, the atmosphere had everything of a World Cup victory evening when, on the stroke of 22 hours, the face of Clément Beaune appeared on the only television screen of the establishment, bought for the occasion. The Minister Delegate for Europe, candidate in the 7th district of Paris, split between three arrondissements (IVth, XIth and XIIth), has just won by a short head (50.7% against 49.3%) against her opponent from Nupes, Caroline Mecary. “Honestly, I didn’t believe it”, whispers a forty-year-old with graying hair, a smile on his face and a glass of wine in his hand. As if the disappointment of Emmanuel Macron’s party on a national scale was already only a distant memory. Read our report.

8h03

In the Drôme, a former cleaning lady elected under the colors of the RN. Lisette Pollet, 54, is the first MP labeled RN elected in the Drôme, in Montelimar. Employed by Elior and then by Sodexo, she held the position of cleaning team leader in a private school in Valence until last fall when she decided to devote herself to her political career.

7h52

In Seine-Saint-Denis, Garrido put an end to the Lagarde era. Feverish texts, incredulous smiles, then an explosion of joy: “The UDI is over! Raquel to the Assembly!” SanWaiting for the official results, the militants of the Communist Party, which took over the city from the UDI in the last municipal elections, howled their joy when the rebellious Raquel Garrido claimed victory on BFMTV, shortly before 10 p.m. From the balcony, his companion, LFI MP Alexis Corbière, elected in the first round in the neighboring constituency, greets the crowd. Youyous fuse, we fall in the arms, we kiss, we cry. “History”: the candidate of the Nupes eliminated Sunday Jean-Christophe Lagarde, the deputy for twenty years of the 5th district of Seine-Saint-Denis and powerful boss of the UDI. Read our report.

7h50

Macron’s personal defeat highlighted by the press. “Slap”, “slap”, “humiliating defeat”, “scathing disavowal”, the press does not have words strong enough Monday morning to describe the setback suffered in the legislative elections by the camp of President Emmanuel Macron who will have to learn to compose, according to the editorialists. In close-up on the front page of most newspapers, the face of Emmanuel Macron, head bowed in Liberation or Les Echos or pursed lips in Today in France, illustrates, for the newspapers of right and left, a defeat personal of the Head of State. Read the press review.

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