PARIS: Madame Marie Silin (Member of the French Parliament) has organised a visit to the National Assembly.
PARIS: (23rd Sept., 2021) Tabassum Saleem with Marie Silin (Member of French Parliament), Barbara Granatelli (French Political Officer), Pauline Bella (President of Belliza Int’l) and Fatma Mnafek (French Designer).
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PARIS: (23rd Sept., 2021) Marie Silin, Member of French Parliament.
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PARIS: (23rd of Sept., 2021) Tabassum Saleem with Fatma Mnafek and Pauline Bella.
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The National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (Sénat). The National Assembly’s legislators are known as députés “delegate” or “envoy” in English; the word is an etymological cognate of the English word “deputy”, which is the standard term for legislators in many parliamentary systems. There are 577 députés, each elected by a single-member constituency (at least one per department) through a two-round voting system. Thus, 289 seats are required for a majority. The President of the National Assembly, currently Richard Ferrand, presides over the body.
The officeholder is usually a member of the largest party represented, assisted by vice presidents from across the represented political spectrum. The National Assembly’s term is five years; however, the President of the Republic may dissolve the Assembly (thereby calling for new elections) unless it has been dissolved in the preceding twelve months. This measure has become rarer since the 2000 referendum reduced the presidential term from seven to five years: since 2002, the President of the Republic has always had a majority elected in the Assembly two months after the presidential election.
It would accordingly be of little benefit to dissolve it. Due to the separation of powers, the President of the Republic may not take part in parliamentary debates. They can however address the Congress of the French Parliament, which meets at the Palace of Versailles, or have the address read by the presidents of both chambers of Parliament, with no subsequent debate. Following a tradition started by the first National Assembly during the French Revolution, the “left-wing” parties sit to the left as seen from the president’s seat and the “right-wing” parties to the right; the seating arrangement thus directly indicates the political spectrum as represented in the Assembly.
The official seat of the National Assembly is the Palais Bourbon on the Rive Gauche of the Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The Assembly also uses other neighboring buildings, including the Immeuble Chaban-Delmas on the Rue de l’Université. The National Assembly, as well as most institutions of importance in Paris, is guarded by Republican Guards.
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