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00:00France's newly elected 577 members of the National Assembly are uniting for the first
00:06time and choosing a president for the lower legislative house, the fourth highest ranking
00:11figure in the country, through a secret ballot vote, in a parliament currently split three
00:17ways with no absolute majority.
00:20The left-wing New Popular Front, who secured an upset victory in the latest snap election,
00:25has put forward 74-year-old veteran communist lawmaker André Chassaigne.
00:30We're standing before the National Assembly with one will, and that is to win. We think
00:37we're in a position to win, and the pulpit, as they call it, is accessible to us.
00:45Macron's camp is trying to form a tactical alliance to snatch the victory from the left,
00:50Hoping to re-elect outgoing lower house speaker Yael Brown-Pivet, they remain confident that
00:56the votes will speak for themselves.
00:58We'll be looking at the votes, and the votes, and the votes, and this is a parliamentarian
01:02telling you.
01:03On the far right is national rally candidate Sébastien Cheneau, who was vice-president
01:08of the National Assembly in the last legislature.
01:11And the Republican right group, who has so far rejected a coalition with Macron's camp,
01:17have chosen Philippe Juvin, MP for the Hauts-de-Seine department in western Paris.
01:22Other independent MPs are also declaring their candidacy, like Charles de Courson, a centrist
01:28lawmaker who has been in parliament since 1993.
01:32The lower house president is elected in a three-round voting system, in a vote that
01:37will show which parties are willing to, and are able to, build bridges within the gridlocked
01:42assembly to form a new government.