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France's President Emmanuel Macron is facing renewed political pressure now that the political truce he requested during the Paris Olympics has come to an end. In a column published on Sunday, the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party threatened legal action against Macron if he failed to appoint a prime minister from the left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front (NFP), in the coming days. "We are writing this open letter as a solemn warning," wrote the column's signatories, which include LFI firebrand leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Article 68 of the Constitution allows the French parliament to di...
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A little over a month after the second round of the snap parliamentary elections that plunged the country into chaos, the political chess game is back in full swing. The climax of the Paris Olympics also signalled the end of the political truce French President Emmanuel Macron worked out with other major parties prior to the games. On Tuesday afternoon, the resigning Prime Minister Gabriel Attal sent a letter to various party leaders except for the far-right National Rally (RN) and the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI). The goal: find a legislative compromise and establish a ruling coalition amon...
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Macronist Yaël Braun-Pivet may have been re-elected president of the National Assembly, but she will now have to run the institution in cohabitation with the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP). To everyone's surprise, the left-wing party won an absolute majority of seats on the Bureau of the National Assembly, its executive body, on Friday night. In all, of the 22 seats up for grabs, the NFP won six vice-presidencies, three quaestors now entirely female, and 12 secretaries. The Left Front therefore has an absolute majority, with the remaining seats divided between the presidential camp (five), the ...
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Yaël Braun-Pivet of Macron's centrist party is reelected as the new President of the National Assembly with 220 votes against André Chassaigne who obtained 207 votes. Braun-Pivet, 53, has been the speaker of the National Assembly since 2022 and she retained her post Thursday after three rounds of votes in the lower house of parliament. She received the support of Macron’s centrist allies and of some conservative lawmakers seeking to prevent her leftist contender, a communist lawmaker, from getting the job. Braun-Pivet is the first woman to hold this position. She previously served as Minister ...
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Since no progress has been made in finding a candidate for France’s prime minister, the left-wing alliance New Popular Front (NFP), which won the most seats in the country's legislative elections, has since shifted its focus to try to agree on a candidate for president of the National Assembly, which convenes for the first time on Thursday. It's set to be a high-stakes vote that will determine the balance of power between the three main political blocs — the NFP, the presidential alliance and the far-right National Rally (RN), none of which have an absolute majority. The president of the Natio...
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Will the left-wing coalition New Popular Front that won the most seats in the French legislative elections finally agree on a name for the future Prime Minister? The alliance composed of the hard-left France Unbowed party, the Socialists, Greens and Communists has been squabbling over who should lead the future government. On Monday afternoon, the France Unbowed party announced through a press release they are suspending discussions until further notice, blaming the Socialists for sabotaging the negotiations. On Saturday, the Socialist Party vetoed the candidacy of former MP Huguette Bello, wh...
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Dozens of newly elected far-right MPs arrived for the first time on Wednesday at the National Assembly in Paris since the results of the French legislative elections on 7 July. Despite the National Rally’s surprising defeat at the hands of the left-wing coalition New Popular Front (NFP), followed by French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance, the far-right still made significant gains growing from 89 seats in 2022 to at least 123 in the National Assembly today. The left-wing alliance holds the largest number of seats in the National Assembly, with 193 of 577, but is well short of the...
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French President Emmanuel Macron set off a political earthquake after he announced on Sunday he was dissolving the National Assembly and calling early legislative elections. A risky move that could either make it or break it for the presidential camp. The shock announcement came shortly after the far-right National Rally (RN) inflicted a stinging defeat on Macron's Renaissance party in European parliamentary elections. French voters will now have to return to the ballot boxes, this time to elect 577 MPs, on June 30 for the first round and July 7 for the second one. Why now?Macron argued on Sun...
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