Common candidate of the left-wing Nupes coalition, Eric Coquerel won in the third round with 21 votes against 11 for the RN candidate Jean-Philippe Tanguy and 9 for the LR Véronique Louwagie. The majority MPs abstained. The position is strategic.
Eric Coquerel, 63, LFI deputy for the first Seine-Saint-Denis constituency, is therefore elected for one year. The position, vested in the opposition since 2007, is strategic. The Finance Committee’s role is to examine the budgets before they arrive in the hemicycle, or bills such as the one on purchasing power expected in July. The chairman of the commission also has access to information covered by tax secrecy, without however being able to reveal it.
For 10 days, the tractions have been tough within the Nupes and its political components. ÂAged 63, the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis was internally preferred to the socialist Valérie Rabault, forced to give up in the face of the leadership of the LFI, the most important left-wing force in the Assembly. She obtained in exchange a vice-presidency of the institution.
The RN also presented a candidate. Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN) again called on Tuesday to “enforce the spirit of the rules“of the Assembly, by entrusting the presidency to the largest opposition group – the RN has 89 deputies against 75 Insoumis. The right-wing elected officials called above all to vote for their candidate Véronique Louwagie.
Eric Coquerel was elected in the third round with 21 votes against 11 for the RN candidate Jean-Philippe Tanguy and 9 for the LR Véronique Louwagie, deputy for Orne.
The other commissions are shared between 7 elected members of the majority: 5 Renaissance (ex-LREM), one elected Horizons and one Modem.
- At Les Lois, it is Sacha Houlié (Renaissance, Vienne), 33, who will chair.
- In Social Affairs, Fadila Khattabi, Renaissance MP for Côte-d’Or was re-elected.
- Guillaume Kasbarian, Renaissance deputy for Eure-et-Loire, will lead the Economic Affairs Committee.
- Thomas Gassilloud (Rhône), another deputy from the presidential party, takes the helm of the National Defense and Armed Forces Committee.
- Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Horizons deputy for Seine-Maritime is elected to Cultural Affairs and Education.
- In Foreign Affairs, MoDem MP Jean-Louis Bourlanges (Hauts-de-Seine) was re-elected.
- Jean-Marc Zulesi (Renaissance, Bouches-du-Rhône) heads the Sustainable Development and Regional Planning Commission.
Since the constitutional reform of 2008, the standing committees have increased power. They are the first to take up a text that corresponds to their field of competence and can amend it.
The chairmen of the committees can also intervene during the sessions, when they wish, on a text that concerns them. A privilege, while speaking time is tightly controlled in the hemicycle.
As a reminder, the deputy for Yvelines, Yaël Braun-Pivet, (LREM) was elected to the presidency of the Assembly, the first woman on the perch,
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