Yaël Braun-Pivet elected president of the Assembly thanks to the RN? Not that easy

Tuesday, the opening day of the 16th legislature, LREM deputy Yaël Braun-Pivet was elected president of the National Assembly. A prestigious position that she obtained after the second ballot with 242 votes, an absolute majority of the 462 voters.

In the process, several deputies, in particular the LFI deputy from the North Adrien Quatennens, denounced a kind of “LREM-RN coalition” which would have allowed the presidential party to obtain the coveted seat on the perch. What is it really ?

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Were there negotiations between the RN group and the LREM group in the National Assembly so that the Macronist candidate on the perch would be favored? Nothing, to date, confirms this. However, in fact, the withdrawal of the RN candidate Sébastien Chenu at the end of the first round, and the non-participation of the 89 deputies of his group in the second round, effectively allowed Yaël Braun-Pivet to obtain the majority. absolute with 242 votes out of the 462 participants. “The RN withdraws its candidate and its deputies are doing ”a second round at the bar” to promote the election of the candidate of #Macron to the Presidency of the National Assembly” tweeted Adrien Quatennens on Tuesday evening. “From the first session of the Assembly, Macron found his majority and the patriotic voters are cuckolds! adds Gilbert Collard, MEP Reconquest!.

In the end, it is all the same LREM who would have won

But did Yaël Braun-Pivet really need the withdrawal of Sébastien Chenu and his support to be elected? A candidate for the presidency of the Assembly wins the ballot if he obtains an absolute majority of votes in the first or second round. If this is not the case, a 3rd round is organised, and it is the candidate who obtains the relative majority who wins the bet.

For the first round, the LREM candidate already had the relative majority (238 votes out of 567 voters). She even won a few votes in the second round (242 votes out of 462 voters), while the other candidates in the running all lost. If the RN candidate had maintained, a 3rd round would therefore have been organized. Nevertheless, mathematically, even if Marine le Pen’s supporters had all voted for Fatiha Keloua-Hachi, the Nupes candidate, she would have obtained only 233 votes against 242 for Yaël Braun-Pivet. The latter would therefore have been elected.

A reasoning also justified Wednesday morning on France Info by Marine Le Pen, now president of the RN group in the Assembly – visible in the video below (from 0’50) –

Yaël Braun-Pivet elected president of the Assembly “I am delighted that women are taking the place that should be theirs”, reacts Marine Le Pen, for whom Jean-Luc Mélenchon “smokes the French” and “seeks to block the institution”. pic.twitter.com/JCMoDzbl1v
– franceinfo (@franceinfo) June 29, 2022

“The reality is that Madame Braun-Pivet, she had 242 votes, says Marine Le Pen. We can spin it as we want, she would have been elected either in the second round or in the third round. (…) It was inevitable, as long as the operation is done quickly”.