A little over a month after joining the government and the overseas ministry, Yaël Braun-Pivet is taking a new step in his young political career, which began six years ago. At 51, the deputy of Yvelines became, Tuesday, June 28, the fourth character of the State following the second round of the ballot and the vote of 242 deputies of the National Assembly in his favor out of the 462 who expressed themselves. Sufficient to access the perch as well as the Hôtel de Lassay and its advantages.
“No one entered this Hemicycle without emotion”she recalled, during her first speech as President of the National Assembly in which she paid tribute to her paternal grandparents who came from Poland and Germany for “Fleeing Nazism” pendant “the dark years”. As the first woman to hold this seat, Yaël Braun-Pivet insisted on gender equality, a “long and winding road” by invoking the memory of Jeanne Deroin, a 19th century feminist who had applied for the post before giving up in 1849, “under the weight of mockery”.
Yaël Braun-Pivet, criminal lawyer by profession, passed by the office of the tenor of the bar Hervé Temime, began her political commitment in 2016 by adhering to La République en Marche (LRM), from the year of its creation. She was then a volunteer in a branch of Restos du Coeur in Chanteloup-les-Vignes (Yvelines). Previously, in the mid-2000s, she had held the position of treasurer of the local section of the Socialist Party in Tokyo (Japan) for a year, where her husband, an executive at L’Oréal, continued his professional career.
Target of several sexist remarks
In 2017, she was elected deputy of the 5e constituency of Yvelines, ending twenty-five years of mandate of Jacques Myard, the conservative mayor of Maisons-Laffitte since 1989. In the process, she was elected to the prestigious position of president of the law commission, thus becoming the second woman to hold this position, twenty years after Catherine Tasca, also elected from Yvelines.
She was then the target of several sexist attacks within the commission itself, in particular from Robin Reda (former Les Républicains (LR), recently rallied to the presidential majority), who thanked her for a point of order. “almost maternal”, because she could “to be his mother”. . Following a hesitant start to the law commission, her pugnacity and hard work got the better of the attacks on this political novice. “After being the subject of hazing and destabilization actions, Yaël Braun-Pivet was able to win. She is a respected president”says even Eric Ciotti, LR MP for the Alpes-Maritimes.
In the summer of 2017, at the time of the work of her commission on the moralization of political life, she thought her microphone was cut and deplored the attitude of her group. “We have a text manager who is non-existent, it’s as if she were in Noumea on a deck chair”, she says before adding: “We have a sleeping group, which does not know how to step up, which is wallowing. » The chosen one explains afterwards. “I really didn’t feel supported. I’m not blaming my group, but we have to find our place. » She struggled to find hers the following year, in the summer of 2018, when the Benalla affair broke out.
The scar of the commission of inquiry into the Benalla affair
Whereas The world identifies Alexandre Benalla, close to Emmanuel Macron, as the man with a police armband filmed assaulting protesters from the 1is– May, the Parliament quickly seized the file. A commission of inquiry, chaired by Mr.me Braun-Pivet, is launched at the National Assembly. But the latter closes its hearings at the end of July, without transmitting the slightest report or formulating a conclusion.
The elected official is then accused by the opposition of not having done what is necessary to establish the truth and thus protect the Elysée. Conversely, it is the Senate, mostly on the right, which becomes the nerve center of the parliamentary inquiry in September. During this period, the mother of five children claims to have received dozens of threats and insults of a sexist and anti-Semitic nature and is filing a complaint. “The commission of inquiry was set up in less than twenty-four hours. We interviewed the highest officials of the Elysée. What more do you need? »she defends herself.
After the departure of François de Rugy from the presidency of the National Assembly to join the government at the start of the 2018 school year, Yaël Braun-Pivet declares himself a candidate. For her, the candidacy of Richard Ferrand, a former figure in politics, does not fit with the transgression displayed by La République en Marche. “I believe that it is not up to our movement, the aspiration of the French to renewal”, she says at the microphone of RTL, before turning around at the beginning of the afternoon so as not to bring « division » to its movement and by affirming not to have undergone “no pressure” from the Elysée.
Four years later, she can therefore access the highest step of the National Assembly without hindrance in a Chamber that is more fragmented than ever. “The French enjoin us to work together, to debate rather than fight”, she pointed out to her fellow MPs on Tuesday. On a more personal level, she also recalled that her mother, “child of the Ddass”, taught him not to “never follow the path that others have traced for you”. The message passed for this ambitious, determined to follow hers.