The Agir Ensemble group (''"Act Together"'') was a
parliamentary group
A parliamentary group, parliamentary caucus or political group is a group consisting of members of different political party, political parties or independent politicians with similar ideologies. Some parliamentary systems allow smaller politic ...
of the
French National Assembly
The National Assembly (, ) is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral French Parliament under the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (France), Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known ...
in the
15th legislature of the Fifth Republic from 2020 to 2022.
It was made up of
deputies from
Agir and the
UDI and Independents group
The UDI and Independent Deputies () was a parliamentary group in the National Assembly of France including members of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), Agir (2017–2020), and some dissidents of The Republicans (LR) after the 2017 ...
. The group was formed on 26 May 2020, with nine members of the Agir party, six members of
La République En Marche!
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and one member of the
Liberties and Territories group.
The group was chaired by
Olivier Becht.
Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo and
Jean-Charles Larsonneur acted as vice presidents of the group, while
Pierre-Yves Bournazel,
Valérie Petit and
Vincent Ledoux were the group's spokespeople.
History
The Agir Ensemble group was created less than a week after the creation of another parliamentary group,
Ecology Democracy Solidarity (EDS).
Agir Ensemble became the tenth parliamentary group in the National Assembly, then a record high number under the
Fifth Republic.
The group came to political effect on 20 April 2020, when there was a vote concerning the ending of the
COVID-19 lockdown
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, and similar societal restrictions), were implemented in numero ...
: Agir Ensemble members voted in favour of the motion, whilst others parliamentarians abstained or voted against the motion.
References
External links
Official webpage{{France-poli-stub
National Assembly (France)
Parliamentary groups in France
2020 establishments in France