World News | France's Divided National Assembly Votes to Keep Centrist Speaker as Political Turmoil Persists

Paris, Jul 18 (AP) France's divided National Assembly has kept a centrist member of President Emmanuel Macron's party as speaker.

Speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet 53, has been the speaker of the National Assembly since 2022 and retained her post Thursday after three rounds of vote in the lower house of parliament.

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She received the support of Macron's centrist allies and of some conservative lawmakers seeking to prevent her leftist contender, a communist lawmaker, from getting the job.

The parliamentary election earlier this month resulted in a split between three major political blocs: the New Popular Front leftist coalition, Macron's centrist allies and the far-right National Rally party. None of them won an outright majority. (AP)

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