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Sonya CIESNIK

Rising generation of young lawmakers stake their claim in French parliament

Members of Parliament of French leftist La France Insoumise (LFI) party and members of left-wing coalition NUPES (Nouvelle Union Populaire Ecologique et Sociale - New People's Ecologic and Social Union), applaud after the speech of their parliamentary group's president following the Prime Minister's "general political declaration" in Paris on July 6, 2022. © Bertrand Guay, AFP

The June 2022 French legislative elections have seen a new generation of young, mostly angry lawmakers angling for influence in the National Assembly. Does this spell a real break from the past or merely the rise of hung parliament theatrics for France? 

As Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne delivered her first, much-awaited address to parliament on Wednesday, the head of France’s minority government faced a raucous opposition, forcing the 61-year-old politician to soldier on through chants, taunts and jeers. 

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