France's Assemblée Nationale has kept a member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party as president. Speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet, 53, has had the top job of the Assemblée Nationale since 2022 and retained her post on Thursday, July 18, after three rounds of vote in the lower house of parliament.
She received the support of Macron's centrist allies and of some conservative lawmakers seeking to prevent her leftist contender, a communist lawmaker, from getting the job.
The parliamentary election earlier this month resulted in a split between three major political blocs: the Nouveau Front Populaire left-wing coalition, Macron's centrist allies and the far-right Rassemblement National party. None of them won an outright majority.
Thursday's opening session of the Assemblée came two days after Macron accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and other ministers, but asked them to handle affairs in a caretaker capacity until a new government is appointed, as France prepares to host the Olympics at the end of the month.