Traditionally, leadership positions in the National Assembly are meant to reflect the body’s political composition.
But after centrist and left-wing parties worked together during last year’s snap legislative elections to block the far right from victory, the two sides once again teamed up to deny the National Rally top positions in the National Assembly.
Over the summer, Together for the Republic, the largest parliamentary group supporting Macron, reversed its previous stance on the far right’s exclusion, arguing that the firewall had led to the disproportionate representation of left-wing groups.
Yaël Braun-Pivet, the Macron-allied president of the National Assembly, endorsed the far right’s return in a clip posted on social media.
“In the temple of democracy, every voice represented in parliament should also be in its governing bodies,” she said.