Yaël Braun-Pivet of Macron's centrist party re-elected as new President of the National Assembly

Yaël Braun-Pivet of Macron's centrist party has been re-elected as new President of the National Assembly with 220 votes.

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00:00This is the moment Yael Brone-Pivet, Macron's ally, was re-elected as president of the National

00:10Assembly with 220 votes against 207 for her communist rival André Chassaigne and national

00:19rally candidate Sébastien Chenu, who came third with 141 votes.

00:25Brone-Pivet, part of Macron's Renaissance party, had already taken the lead during the

00:31second round of votes with 210 against Chassaigne, who had 207.

00:37The communist denounced a vote that had been stolen by an unholy alliance between Macron

00:43and the right.

00:45Politicians from each camp were hoping to influence the future prime ministerial nomination.

00:51The election of Yael Brone-Pivet from Macron's centrist alliance is seen as a slap in the

00:56face, especially for the left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front, the NFP, that won the

01:01most seats in France's legislative elections.

01:04This now could mean that French President Emmanuel Macron could use this election as

01:08an excuse not to nominate a prime minister from the left, claiming that it does not represent

01:14the vote of the 577 French MPs in the National Assembly.

01:19Sofia Katsenkova reporting from Paris for Euronews.