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Three days after the second round of the legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron wanted to explain his political method to come to lead a country in which he no longer has an absolute majority in the National Assembly. In his televised address on Wednesday evening, the president rejected the idea of a national unity government, promising to “govern and legislate differently” to find “compromises” with the opposition. A large political gap that will be tested in the summer with a law on purchasing power.
Unless there is a last-minute political reversal, a woman should for the first time settle on the perch. Yaël Braun-Pivet, Minister of Overseas, will indeed be the majority candidate for the presidency of the National Assembly, after a joint vote on Wednesday by deputies LREM, MoDem and Horizons. The former president of the law commission at the Palais-Bourbon, re-elected deputy for Yvelines on Sunday, is on track to succeed Richard Ferrand, who was defeated in the second round of the legislative elections. It is on June 28 that will be held in the hemicycle, from 3 p.m., the election for the presidency of the Assembly by all the deputies, by secret ballot in the gallery. If the absolute majority of the votes cast has not been obtained in the first two ballots, the relative majority is sufficient in the third ballot, which should guarantee the election of the majority candidate.
Léon Marchand inscribed his name in the history of swimming. After a first coronation on Saturday and a silver medal on Tuesday, the new French phenomenon in the pools won a second title on Wednesday at the World Championships in Budapest, winning gold in the 200m medley. At 20, he became the third French swimmer in history to win two world titles in the same year after Laure Manaudou (2007) and Florent Manaudou (2015). So to fully understand how Léon Marchand became a legend, 20 minutes tells you everything about his years of preparation.