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After the legislative elections, the National Assembly has fewer women than before

Catherine Vautrin makes a speech in the National Assembly. (Paris, May 27, 2024)
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Women MPs now represent 36% of “Hemicycle” members, he emphasized The worldMonday July 8. A low figure compared to 2017 and 2022.

Now they are 208 for 577 places. After the last legislative elections, the proportion of women in the National Assembly decreased, he said The world , Monday July 8: Women MPs now make up 36% of the House, up from 37% last term. Thus, the proportion of female MPs in the House of Bourbon declines between 2017 and 2022. In 2017, the proportion of women sitting in the Assembly reached a record 38.8% (224 MPs). This proportion increased to 37.3% in 2022. At that time there were 215 women compared to 362 men.

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41% of candidates

Today, the party with the most women is the New People’s Front (NFP), in which they represent 40.4% of MPs. The elected representatives of Renaissance make up 40.2%. The National Rally and its allies have 32.2% women, and the Republicans have 32.2%. The tight time frame of the campaign, which took place over three weeks, partly explains this lack of parity.

In general, only 41% of the candidates presented by the parties were women. And if political parties are required to represent the same number of men as women, they can choose to apply financial sanctions when the equality gap exceeds 2%. At the end of these elections, the National Assembly was found to be less female than the Senate, the latter having 36.8 percent of female senators.

Source: Le Figaro

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