If a French MP is not physically at the National Assembly, he or she cannot vote on a bill – a situation that is being challenged with the rise in the number of female MPs, some of whom will take time off for maternity leave. One MP wants to change the constitution to allow lawmakers to be replaced when they have a baby. Who would oppose such a move?
“Today, it’s an organisation that was thought up by men, for men,” says Mathilde Hignet about the National Assembly, where she has been a lawmaker since June.
