French President Emmanuel Macron’s candidate for head of the National Assembly was re-elected to the post on Thursday, suggesting his centrist supporters have a chance of forming a new government despite being defeated in recent elections.
Yaël Braun-Pivet was elected president of the new assembly after three rounds of voting by MPs, as she secured the support of conservative lawmakers and defeated alternative candidates from the left and far right.
Her re-election came even though Macron’s centrist alliance has fewer seats than the left after the snap parliamentary elections he called in June. No group has a majority in the assembly.
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