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8:55 am: Aurore Bergé, LREM leader in the Assembly?

And the elected representatives of the presidential majority will designate their leaders, after seeing several of the tenors beaten on Sunday, including the President of the Assembly Richard Ferrand.

LREM deputies will choose this morning the president of a group which has shrunk from 266 to 170 members. Among the four suitors to succeed Christophe Castaner, defeated on Sunday, is Aurore Bergé, until then deputy president of the group.

Aurore Bergé, November 25, 2017 in Paris. – Ludovic MARIN / AFP

The other two majority partners, Horizons and MoDem, must also choose their bosses.

At the end of the afternoon, a sort of primary will make it possible to appoint a single candidate from the majority on the roost, a coveted position for which several figures are in the ranks, such as the Minister for Overseas Yaël Braun-Pivet, the former ministers from the previous five-year term Barbara Pompili and Joël Giraud, or even the ex-minister LR rallied to Emmanuel Macron Eric Woerth.

Out of a majority, the deputy for Doubs Annie Genevard (LR) entered the ranks, highlighting her “solid experience”.

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