The heads of the political groups in the National Assembly will meet late Tuesday afternoon to decide whether to call into question the distribution of key positions at the Palais-Bourbon or renew the current configuration, including in particular the the contested allocation of two vice-presidencies to the RN.
The bosses of the groups must meet at 5:30 p.m. around the 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,” he 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), Elodie Jacquier-Laforge (MoDem) and Caroline Fiat (LFI).
“There is a whole strategy of legitimizing the National Rally, for which we could have made mistakes” and “clearly”, the “vote for RN deputies for vice-presidents” was one of them, said Macronist deputy Sacha on Saturday Houlié, while deeming it “difficult” to call them into question “without victimization on their part”.
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 Eric Coquerel, the target of recurring criticism from the presidential camp.
09/26/2023 05:15:23 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP