Franco-Moroccan Naïma Moutchou Among New Vice-Presidents of French National Assembly

After the legislative elections, the French deputies proceeded on Wednesday, June 29, to the appointment of the six vice-presidents of the National Assembly. The Franco-Moroccan Naïma Moutchou elected among the vice-presidents is not the only novelty. This is the first time in the history of France that the National Assembly will be chaired by a woman. It is the 51-year-old socialist Yaël Braun-Pivet.

Of the six seats, four were won by women. These are Caroline Fiat (LFI-Nupes), Valérie Rabault (PS-Nupes), Elodie Jacquier-Laforge (MoDem) and Naïma Moutchou (Horizons). On her Twitter account, the Franco-Moroccan expressed her joy at this important step, before recalling that she is "the daughter of illiterate Moroccan immigrants" and that after living "26 years in HLM in a disadvantaged suburb", she had "climbed the steps one by one by sheer determination to become a lawyer", before being elected deputy "thanks to the diversity bet of Emmanuel Macron".

Before becoming known on the political scene, Naïma Moutchou, the youngest of a family of six children, had distinguished herself as a lawyer through her activism in the service of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism.