On June 9, the former president of the lower house of the French parliament, the National Assembly, Yael Braun-Pivet, was elected the head of the new assembly of the same composition formed by the results of the legislative vote on Thursday evening.
Three rounds of voting had to be held to determine the winner. According to the regulations, in the third round, the candidate who received a simple majority of votes is awarded victory. 220 MPs voted in favor of Brown-Pivet, representative of the "Together" pro-presidential coalition. His main competitor, the candidate of the left-wing "New People's Front” the communist Andre Chassaigne, received 207 votes, and the representative of the nationalist "National Union" Sébastien Chenou, 141 votes.
