National Assembly: electing RN deputies to the vice-presidency, a “mistake” for Sacha Houlié

2023-09-23 22:57:54

It was a decision that caused controversy. And that still doesn’t happen. The vote of majority deputies which allowed the RN to access two positions of vice-presidents of the Assembly at the start of the legislature, was an “error”, said Macronist deputy Sacha Houlié, president of the Commission, on Saturday. laws.

“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-presidencies” was one of them, declared the deputy (Renaissance) of Vienna on France Culture.

“From now on, they have the functions, they are representative and it is difficult to exclude them without victimization on their part. This is a big difficulty for us,” he continued. If the co-founder of Young People with Macron understands “the idea that everyone (has) the right to their fair representation according to the ballot box”, he will refrain for his part “from voting for elected RN representatives”, if the question were to be asked again , as he did at the start of the mandate.

A new office on October 2

At the time, Éric Woerth nevertheless supported this vote. “Obviously in the representation of the structure of the Assembly, it is logical that there are two of the six vice-presidents who are RN”. It was a reflection of “all the sensitivities” expressed “by the French”, according to Aurore Bergé (Renaissance).

The office of the Assembly, which brings together vice-presidents, quaestors and secretaries, must be renewed on October 2. A meeting of group leaders is to be held on Tuesday around the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, to see if an agreement is emerging in favor of a renewal of the Bureau in its current composition without a vote.

If environmentalists called on the majority to remove the two RN vice-presidents from the Office, the president, Yaël Braun-Pivet, clearly spoke out for the status quo, during the Renaissance parliamentary days last week.