Yaël Braun-Pivet, first woman on the perch – Mediapart

The reading of the articles is reserved for subscribers. Connect Two long, very long, turns and then it’s good. The deputy of the 5th district of Yvelines, Yaël Braun-Pivet, was elected by 242 votes out of 462 expressed, president of the National Assembly, Tuesday, June 28, at the opening of this XVIth legislature. Sign of the times: while it only took one round for his predecessor, Richard Ferrand, the loss of the absolute majority by Macronie forced the holding of two rounds. Yaël Braun-Pivet had obtained 238 votes out of the 553 cast in the first, then an absolute majority in the second, after the withdrawal of his candidacy by the deputy Rassemblement national Sébastien Chenu. , Yaël Braun-Pivet paid an applauded tribute to his predecessor, Richard Ferrand, beaten during the legislative elections in his stronghold of Finistère. She then insisted that she becomes the first woman to preside over the National Assembly. She also mentioned the decision of the American Supreme Court to reconsider the authorization of abortion: “Nothing is ever acquired”, she launched. Topical remarks in France since one of the first texts on the agenda of this new legislature – in addition to that on purchasing power – could be the inclusion of the right to abortion in the Constitution. The new president would then lead a debate of which she said, in July 2018, that there was “no need to brandish fears based on the situation of these rights in other countries to affirm that they would be threatened in ours. “. But that was before the American regression and the arrival of 89 RN deputies in the National Assembly. Tuesday, June 28, the session opened with this new political deal at the heart of the concerns. In a back-to-school atmosphere, the positioning of deputies in alphabetical order – instead of placement by groups – causes some unexpected scenes: the handshake, fast and tense, of the RN Marine Le Pen to Gilles Legendre (Rebirth); the refusal by the deputy LFI Danièle Obono of the hand extended by the RN Julien Odoul. first sitting, as Dean of the Assembly. During his short introductory speech, he succeeded in paying a strong tribute to French Algeria, presenting himself as a “child of a France from elsewhere” who remains “attached to his native land” and found himself on the coasts of Provence in 1962″. “I left part of my France and a lot of friends there,” he said again before breaking off emotionally and thus arousing applause. The RN deputy also paid tribute to the arms dealer Marcel Dassault, recalling that his grandson Victor Habert-Dassault sat today, after his uncle Olivier Dassault. Yaël Braun-Pivet, in the center, during the vote for the post of President of the National Assembly, June 28, 2022. © Photo Isa Harsin / Sipa