With the disappearance of the pillars of the present majority in the National Assembly, from Richard Ferrand to Christophe Castaner, and the weakening due to the loss of the absolute majority, the Macronist deputies are in search of successors to the key positions of the Palais- Bourbon.
On Wednesday June 22, at the end of the afternoon, there will be a vote for the perch between the majority partners. The election of the incumbent will have to be confirmed the following week in the hemicycle, during a vote by secret ballot of all the deputies.
Five candidates
Among the La République en Marche (LRM, renamed Renaissance) candidates for the presidency of the National Assembly are :
- Yaël Braun-Pivet, current overseas minister and former president of the law commission at the Palais-Bourbon. The deputy of Yvelines had already wished to be a candidate for the perch in 2018, before withdrawing in favor of Richard Ferrand, supported by the Elysée;
- Roland Lescureoutgoing Chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee. “The urgency is to act by trying to gather a majority, and of course it will not be easy”he declared on Franceinfo, considering that « [l’électeur] gave a very clear message: “I want Emmanuel Macron to govern, I want him to do so with a relative majority, I want you to get along together, the Republican forces, to get us out of the crisis in which we are ”” ;
- Barbara Pompiliformer Minister of Ecological Transition. “We are at a time when it will be difficult to bring together majorities”so “we need someone who can reach out to everyone”she argued to Agence France-Presse;
- Joel GiraudSecretary of State in charge of rurality then Minister for territorial cohesion in the government of Jean Castex and former rapporteur for the budget. “The composition of our Assembly obliges us. The search for compromise must be our priority to advance France and the ecological, social and economic reforms for which Emmanuel Macron was elected.he told RMC;
- Eric Woertha former minister under Nicolas Sarkozy who has since joined Emmanuel Macron. “I am a candidate for the presidency of the National Assemblyhe said. Richard Ferrand was destined to continue the work that was his on the perch. Unfortunately, he was not re-elected and I wish to pay tribute to his work and place myself in the continuity of his action “affirmed the former president of the finance commission to the Parisian.
The deputies did not receive official voting instructions from the President of the Republic, which was not the case during the previous five-year term.
Many other strategic functions at the Palais-Bourbon have lost their holder: the two quaestors of the majority (deputies in charge of the management of the institution) Florian Bachelier and Laurianne Rossi, the president of the defense committee Françoise Dumas, as well as the general budget rapporteur Laurent Saint-Martin.