French parliamentarians at the National Assembly on Thursday re-elected Yaël Braun-Pivet as the chamber's speaker following snap legislative elections that failed to give any party a majority. The vote for parliament's new president, a role that has taken on increasing importance amid stalled negotiations to nominate a new prime minister, went into a third and final round. Read FRANCE 24’s liveblog to get up to date on French politics.
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- Newly elected French parliamentarians began their first session in the National Assembly with a vote to elect the chamber's president on Thursday.
- The National Assembly president directs debate and appoints three of the nine members of the Constitutional Council, which decides whether laws comply with the constitution. The president holds the fourth-highest position in government after the president, the prime minister and the president of the Senate.
- Negotiations to nominate a prime ministerial candidate from among the New Popular Front leftist coalition have stalled due to infighting since the bloc won the most seats – but failed to secure a clear majority – in the July 7 second round.
- Seats in the National Assembly are roughly split between three blocs: the leftist New Popular Front coalition, the centre-right camp of President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party.
- Macron on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and other ministers but asked him and other government officials to stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new government is appointed.
- France was plunged into political uncertainty when Macron dissolved parliament on June 9 and called snap legislative elections in a surprise move after the National Rally came out ahead of his coalition in European parliamentary elections.
