On June 19, the voters decided: the 577 members of the National Assembly were renewed.
But the distribution of the seats of the Bourbon palace is not yet recorded.
It remains to elect the President of the Assembly and determine the composition of the parliamentary groups.
Funding, premises, speaking time: these groups are essential to the functioning of Parliament.
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Since 2008, 15 deputies are needed to form a parliamentary group.
Everyone is free to join whoever they choose, but membership is generally based on political affiliation.
The legislature which has just ended comprised fifteen parliamentary groups.
The most important of them was La République en Marche (266 deputies), followed by Les Républicains (100).
The smallest group (15 deputies) was that of the Democratic and Republican left, behind La France Insoumise (17 deputies).
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In concrete terms, the parliamentary groups each have offices and meeting rooms dedicated to them.
The more MEPs the group contains, the more its financial and material resources, as well as its speaking time, increase.
The size of each group then defines the number of their seats in the various thematic commissions, which have the task of modifying the texts of the law before they are debated.
First group for the RN since 1988
The size of the different groups is also important for the allocation of positions in the committees, including that of chairman.
According to custom, the head of the Finance Committee, which controls the accounts of the State, is attributed to the main opposition group.
In view of the results of this election, this role could therefore fall to the National Rally, which has 89 deputies.
Unless the LFI (72), PS (24), EELV (23) and PC (12) deputies decide to form a single group of 131 deputies.
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Apart from those of the presidential majority, the other groups should join the opposition, submitting a declaration to this effect to the presidency of the Assembly.
As such, they will benefit once a month from a parliamentary niche.
This is a day when the agenda for the meeting is not set by the government but by an opposition group.
An opportunity for the group in question to have the texts of their choice examined.
The National Rally, with its 89 deputies, is assured of being able to form a parliamentary group, for the first time since the experience of proportional representation between 1986 and 1988. In 2017, the National Front had only obtained 8 seats.
Without being able to claim a parliamentary group, these elected officials were considered as “
unregistered
”, sitting in the last rows of the hemicycle, and having much more reduced means.
From now on, they should find themselves in a strong position at the Bourbon Palace.