Some 90,000 major French voters were called to vote on Sunday to renew half of the chairs in the Senate.
Two major issues around this election: the score of Macronie and the possible formation of an ecological group on the benches of the Luxembourg Palace.
This Sunday was an election day for 90,000 major French voters.
The latter, elected by the Republic, were called to vote in order to renew half of the chairs of the Senate, on the basis of indirect universal suffrage unlike other French ballots.
The coronavirus epidemic slowed down the counting process, but the first results of these senatorial elections fell at the end of the day.
Patriat and Lemoyne, two LREMs, re-elected
Among the expected results were that of the department of Côte-d'Or and the president of the En Marche group, François Patriat, was re-elected in this department.
The victory was not obvious after the failed municipal Macronie.
Another relief for the marchers: the re-election of the Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne in Yonne.
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The big question that remained during these elections was: will the Greens manage to form a group?
It takes ten senators for that and obviously, the environmentalists have passed this course.
In any case, this was announced by Esther Benbassa, member of Europe Ecology-Les Verts, early Sunday evening.
Few risks for the right
One thing is certain: the right, majority in the Senate, and its president Gérard Larcher, are not in danger this Sunday since the right holds half of the cities of more than 9,000 inhabitants and 95% of the large voters come from the municipal ones of March and June.
Gérard Larcher also declared at the beginning of the evening that the majority of the right and the center was "comforted".