For or against a status quo? Tuesday September 26, the heads of the political groups of the National Assembly will meet at the end of the afternoon to decide whether to call into question the distribution of key positions at the Palais-Bourbon or renew the current configuration. They meet at 5:30 p.m. around Renaissance President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet. This pleads for a status quo in the composition of the office, a governing body which brings together vice-presidents, quaestors and secretaries.
“It is a good office because it respects our regulations which provide that it must represent the different political sensitivities” of the hemicycle, and because it is “largely equal, with 12 women out of 22 members”, said -she recently argued to Macronist deputies.
The renewal of the office is generally a formality, but it would be enough for only one group to request it for a new vote to be organized on October 2. Within the presidential camp, some openly regret having allowed the allocation by their votes at the start of the legislature of two vice-presidencies of the Assembly to RN deputies Sébastien Chenu and Hélène Laporte. The others being attributed to Valérie Rabault (PS), Naïma Moutchou (Horizons), Élodie Jacquier-Laforge (MoDem) and Caroline Fiat (LFI).
The head of the environmental group Cyrielle Chatelain believes, on the contrary, that it is possible for the presidential camp to “return to one of the original mistakes of this mandate”, by working towards a new composition of the office. Those responsible for the presidential camp are instead pleading for the status quo, just like the LR group. “The big difficulty is that if we touch the current balance, we have no idea what will come out,” confides a Macronist parliamentary source.
On the left, the partners of the ecologists within Nupes, although they also criticize the presidential majority for its vote last year, are reluctant in the face of the prospect of a major upheaval. “If you move one thing, everything moves,” warns a socialist parliamentary source. Among the risks for the left, that of losing the coveted presidency of the Finance Committee, headed by the rebel Éric Coquerel, the target of recurring criticism from the presidential camp.