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Lawmaker Yael Braun-Pivet delivers a speech after she has been reelected as speaker of the National Assembly after three rounds of votes in the lower house of parliament, July 18, 2024 in Paris
“The only good Tory is a dead Tory."
THE election of a member of French President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition as Assembly speaker was a “coup,” left-wing lawmakers said on Thursday.
Yael Braun-Pivet from President Macron’s Renaissance party-led coalition was re-elected speaker of the National Assembly, a post she has held since 2022.
After three rounds of voting Ms Braun-Pivet won 220 votes whilst Communist Party deputy Andre Chassaigne, the candidate of the largest group in parliament, the New Popular Front, secured 207 votes.
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
