Legislative: age, profession, parity… A National Assembly more representative of society?

By entering the Assembly, Rachel Keke, the first chambermaid elected to the Palais-Bourbon, became the symbol of a change of course. The member for the 7th constituency of Val-de-Marne is not alone in changing the face of the hemicycle: the over-educated white men over 60 who still occupied most of the benches are now diluted in the middle of a set of younger and less formatted elected officials. A heterogeneous group more representative, in short, of the French population. Overview.