2024-07-17 23:16:50
Communist André Chassaigne was chosen on Wednesday as the sole candidate of the New Popular Front to run for President of the National Assembly, the left-wing coalition parties indicated on the eve of the vote.
After long negotiations, the deputy gave Puy-de-Dôme the benefit of the withdrawal of environmentalist candidate Cyrielle Chatelain. He will mainly challenge outgoing Macronist President Yaël Braun-Pivet and centrist Charles de Courson, from the independent Liot party.
Aged 74, André Chassaigne is one of the pillars of the Palais-Bourbon where he has worked since 2002 and has chaired the Communist Party since 2012. He was particularly important in promoting the review of agricultural pensions small.
In front of the press with other leaders of the left, the parliament insisted on the “common mandate” of the New Popular Front to “take precedence over the Assembly” and the desire of the left to “respond to the problems of daily life” .
“Most likely to win” on the left
“The elected representative of the countryside”, he also pleaded for a “form of pacification” in France “broken”, while the representatives of the LFI are often criticized for their behavior in the hemicycle. He has also said many times that he will maintain his position as a candidate until the end of the election, which may take up to three times, and that he will not cancel for another candidate.
Cyrielle Chatelain estimates that André Chassaigne’s candidate is “the most likely to win” on the left, after having withdrawn his own to “not prolong the deadlock”. The leader of the rebel parliaments Mathilde Panot “is glad that a step has been taken”, believing that “it is impossible for Yaël Braun-Pivet to become president of this Assembly again as if nothing had happened” .
The president of the PS party, Boris Vallaud, sent a message to the other political forces in the Assembly, that they called to choose André Chassaigne instead of the candidate from the presidential camp, looking at the results of the legislative elections.
“I know that more than ourselves in this hemicycle there are people who understand that there is a desire to prevent the rise of the extreme right to power, but the indifference of the policy of a true republican president does not have. the keys, and we will show it,” he stressed.
Agreement between crisis
The presence of the New Elite – LFI, socialists, scientists and communists – required many hours of meetings to decide. And we chose a candidate while the discussions were completely stopped to propose a candidate for the position of Prime Minister. The Insoumis oppose the person that the PS put forward for Matignon, climate expert Laurence Tubiana, whom the LFI considers too “Macron-friendly”.
On Wednesday, the head of scientists Marine Tondelier said he was “angry” and “disgusted” by the leadership battle between the rebels and the socialists to propose a name for Matignon, launching a call for the immediate resumption of negotiations.
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