It is not only between the Elysée and Matignon where the cards have been shuffled since the dissolution. In the National Assembly too the lines are moving and the push could come even from its highest level. At the beginning of the ordinary session on Tuesday 1Ahem October and Prime Minister Michel Barnier is expected to reach the turning point of his general policy statement, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance), is preparing the ground for the emancipation of her institution.
Invited to the conference of presidents of the Assembly, Michel Barnier was able to gauge, on Tuesday, September 24, the inclinations of the Bourbon Palace to influence the parliamentary agenda. Deputies could finally examine a transpartisan text on the end of life, if the reluctance of Matignon’s new tenant is confirmed. A text on proportional representation could also see the light of day if Michel Barnier did not address the issue. “He has a very good knowledge of the institutions. The heart of power today is in the Assembly”, supports Guillaume Gouffier Valente, Renaissance deputy for Val-de-Marne.
The fourth figure of the State is trying to reposition the Assembly at a time when the two heads of the executive are going through a serious crisis of legitimacy. “I will intervene before the executive whenever necessary so that Parliament is respected », supports Mme Braun-Pivet with the World, while the government struggles to respect the budget procedure calendar. At the beginning of September, his request for an extraordinary session with Emmanuel Macron remained a dead letter, and Michel Barnier preferred to give himself time.
“Default candidate”
In a chamber without a majority, divided between eleven often antagonistic groups, the challenge remains important. “Everyone said two years ago that it wouldn’t last, but it did. Today are circumstances that may seem worse than during the previous mandate, but they are also full of opportunities.”, supports those around him, who want to believe in “an Assembly capable of legislating for itself.”
Partially freed from his former loyalties since the failed dissolution of Emmanuel Macron and since his re-election, on the brink, to the presidency of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet believes that he can remain equidistant from the Elysée, from Matignon and from the old presidential majority, which considered it, in July, as “the default candidate” to the hanger. Even less evident is his tandem with the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher (Les Républicains, LR), whose majority on the right and center now supports Barnier’s government. “I told the Prime Minister that I will do everything I can to make this work, reminding him that we are not from the same political family. The president of the Assembly will guarantee the proper functioning of the institutions, the political deputy for Yvelines that I am will defend her convictions.”says Yaël Braun-Pivet.
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