For the New Elite Front, defeat for the perch is the latest obstacle on the road to Matignon

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2024-07-18 22:45:10

André Chassaigne (PCF) raised his hand as the results of the election for the President of the National Assembly were announced, at the Palais-Bourbon, July 18, 2024.

The New Popular Front (NFP) managed to unite behind only one candidate for the position of President of the National Assembly, but that was not enough.

André Chassaigne, deputy communist (PCF) for Puy-de-Dôme since 2002, did not vote on Thursday July 18, after three rounds of voting. He received the full number of votes from his party, 200, to reach the top position in the first stage, but he was not satisfied, because he won with 202 votes in the second stage, only to stumble in third place against the outgoing vote. Yaël Braun Pivet, MP for Yvelines, is also president by 220 to 207 votes.

“Stolen election by uncreated association”, cried André Chassaigne after his defeat, referring to the winning game of the agreement between the presidential camp and the Republican right to spread Yaël Braun-Pivet to the perch, against the result of the legislative elections at the end of which the NFP was in the first place. , but without a majority. “This result is a huge threat to democracy”sorry, in the same thing, the president of La France insoumise (LFI) representatives, Mathilde Panot.

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This vote is also considered the first decision step for the next government. Future leftist government? Marine Tondelier, national secretary of Scientists, calculated that “war” because Matignon was not lost and he “start immediately”.

But while the NFP has shown its inability to propose a common candidate for Matignon, the victory for the President of the National Assembly is an important position in the eyes of Emmanuel Macron to be able to give him access to the position of Prime Minister. The election of André Chassaigne may be a tangible indication of the left’s ability to govern by bringing people together. Conversely, in the event of defeat, the message, even subliminal, from the President of the Republic is clear: no perch, no Matignon.

Olivier Faure (PS): “Sustained form”

The first secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, has anticipated a possible backlash in the morning on BFM-TV, the result of“holding form”with the construction, which we have already taken shape, of a future “everything but poverty”. To maintain the necessary hope for the future of events, the deputy for Seine-et-Marne has therefore considered to modify the election to the National Assembly from the election at the Hôtel de Matignon: “This is not the end of NFP. Whatever happens, we claim victory [aux élections législatives]. »

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