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With the vote on the finances, the National Assembly, ensuing from the early legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, can be greater than ever on the heart of political consideration, with the good problem of passing texts and not using a outlined majority.
The 577 elected or re-elected deputies formally joined their political group through the inaugural session on Thursday July 18. Their composition considerably resembles the earlier legislature, which had ten parliamentary teams, with just one actual novelty: the group of Eric Ciotti, the contested president of the Republicans, and his allies who had moved nearer to the National Rally.
What are parliamentary teams for?
Groups usually make it potential to carry collectively deputies from the identical political household, even when sure so-called “technical” teams carry collectively elected officers from totally different events, significantly when they don’t have sufficient elected officers to create a gaggle of their title. – you want 15.
A bunch has totally different prerogatives relying on whether or not it’s within the majority, opposition or minority. This session is of explicit significance within the context of a House with out an absolute majority and composed of three blocs of comparable dimension. The problem is to be as broad as potential to achieve influencing legislative work: its monetary allocation, its illustration within the workplace of the Assembly (liable for the group and inside functioning) depends upon the variety of members of the group. and in standing committees, and even his talking time in public classes.
The presidents of every group have a strategic function. They sit on the convention of presidents, which organizes the work of deputies, and at sure conferences of the workplace. They contribute to establishing the agenda of the Assembly. They even have quite a few prerogatives within the legislative process and the conduct of classes (suspension of session or public vote for instance).
At the opening of the atypical session of the Assembly, on 1er October, a number of changes had been made, since round twenty deputies, who joined the federal government, gave option to their substitutes. Some key positions have additionally modified: the presidency of the Economic Affairs Committee, held by Antoine Armand, now Minister of the Economy, was awarded to the France Insoumise MP Aurélie Trouvé following a tug of struggle. between the teams Together for the Republic and Republican Right.
Left
At the tip of the 2022 legislative elections, the 151 deputies of the New Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nupes) had been divided into 4 parliamentary teams: 75 LFI, 31 socialists, 23 ecologists and 22 Democratic and Republican Left, together with the communists. In 2024, the NFP can have 182 elected officers, nonetheless divided into 4 teams, two of that are virtually equal in dimension.
- The France Insoumise groupchaired by Val-de-Marne MP Mathilde Panot (president since 2021): 71 elected.
Five “rebels” who broke with the management of the motion selected to affix the Ecologists group slightly than the LFI group: Clémentine Autain, Alexis Corbière, Hendrik Davi, François Ruffin and Danielle Simonnet.
Wednesday October 9, MP Hugo Prévost left the LFI group, then resigned from his mandate, after accusations of sexual violence. This resignation will trigger a partial legislative election in Isère, within the constituency the place he was elected in opposition to Olivier Véran.
- The Ecologist and Social grouppreviously Ecologie-Nupes, whose president stays the deputy for Isère Cyrielle Chatelain: 38 elected officers.
This has expanded in comparison with 2022 – it had 23 deputies – each because of the environmentalist surge recorded on July 7, with 28 elected officers, and the arrival of LFI dissidents. Their arrival justified the change of title, thus turning into “Ecologist and social”.
- The Socialist Party group (PS), whose president stays the Landes deputy Boris Vallaud, in workplace since 2022 : 66 deputies.
In addition to the 59 deputies elected underneath the PS label, the group welcomed a handful of different varied left-wing elected officers.
- The Democratic and Republican Left group (GDR), chaired by the communist deputy for Puy-de-Dôme André Chassaigne : 17 elected. The GDR group contains in its ranks the 9 communist deputies, in addition to abroad deputies.
In the middle
In 2022, three teams made up the presidential majority Together, with 250 deputies: 172 Renaissance, 48 MoDem and independents in addition to 30 Horizons and associated. There are solely 166 left, nonetheless organized in three teams.
- The group Together for the Republicex-Renaissance, chaired by the resigning Prime Minister Gabriel Attal: 95 members.
98 deputies had been elected underneath the Renaissance label. The deputy for Vienne Sacha Houlié has determined to sit down as a non-registrant. He had hoped to have the ability to put collectively a gaggle that might “from the social right to the socialist left”however “for now [il est] alone “he admitted in July.
On September 9, two Ensemble deputies, Charlotte Parmentier-Lecoqu and Xavier Roseren, announced that they were joining the Horizons group of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. Two other deputies left the group to join the non-registered: Sophie Errante on September 20 and Stella Dupont on October 3.
- The Democrats group, chaired by the Modem deputy for Loir-et-Cher Marc Fesneau, resigning Minister of Agriculture: 36 deputies.
- The Horizons grouphaving reappointed the deputy for Corsica-du-Sud Laurent Marcangeli as head: 33 elected officials.
Right
- The Republican Right groupex-Les Républicains (LR), chaired by the deputy for Haute-Loire Laurent Wauquiez: 47 elected.
The group formed by elected Republicans hostile to the alliance with the far right decided by Eric Ciotti is shrinking compared to 2022, when it had 62 deputies. While the Barnier government has eleven members from the Republicans, the DR group in the Assembly officially affiliated with the majority rather than the opposition on October 9.
On the far right
- The National Rally group (RN), chaired by Marine Le Pen : 125 deputies.
While it had 89 deputies in 2022, the RN had 126 elected during the early legislative elections of 2024, making it the largest group. The Yonne MP Daniel Grenon was excluded because of his racist remarks in Republican Yonneand now sits among the non-registered.
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On September 30, the youngest member of the Assembly, Flavien Termet, announced his resignation for personal medical reasons, which will cause a partial legislative election in the Ardennes.
- The UDR group, chaired by Eric Ciotti : 16 deputies.
After the election of 16 deputies from LR having chosen to ally with the RN, Eric Ciotti narrowly passed the bar of 15 elected allowing the formation of a group and will thus be able to exist during parliamentary debates: he obtains for example the right to request suspensions of meetings or votes by public ballot.
On September 11, this group, initially called A Right! changed its name to adopt the name Union des Droits (UDR).
The independents
- The Libertés, independents, overseas and territories group (LIOT), chaired by Stéphane Lenormand: 22 members.
The deputy for Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Stéphane Lenormand, was chosen by the members of the LIOT group to occupy the post of president in place of the deputy for Meuse Bertrand Pancher, defeated on July 7. This transpartisan political group attached to questions concerning overseas territories already had 22 members in the previous legislature, including six overseas.
Finally, the regulations of the National Assembly do not oblige deputies to join a political group, each legislature also includes a few non-members, who however have less speaking time and prerogatives. There were nine following the 2022 legislative elections, and there are now ten.
Update, July 18: correction of the number of PS deputies; there are 59 and not 69 to have been elected under this label.
Update, August 23: updated with final figures.
Update September 10: update with the transition of two deputies to the Horizons group.
Update October 11: update with two resignations, two group changes and the change of name of the Right group becoming UDR.
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