The Senate Chamber, during the speech by Prime Minister Jean Castex on July 16, 2020. -
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Sunday's election did not deliver any real surprises, consolidating the balance of the previous term.
The right and the center confirm their majority, and the Socialists remain the main opposition group.
The ecologists will be able to form a new group, while the RN saves its only seat.
The poll went a little unnoticed amid the news related to the coronavirus.
But the Senate put back half of its seats this Sunday, in a vote where only the voters could express themselves.
The Luxembourg Palace will finally welcome some 70 new faces for the next six years.
A reinforced right-wing majority, a new environmental group, a disaster avoided for La République en Marche…
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goes back to the lessons of these senatorial groups.
The right and the center consolidate their majority
No upheaval during this election, which is in the wake of the last municipal.
This stability delighted Gérard Larcher, the current boss of the Upper House.
"This election, in an unprecedented health, economic and social context, reinforces the senatorial majority of the right and the center", welcomed the president of the Senate, who should logically be reelected on Thursday.
This evening, the senatorial majority of the right and the center is reinforced.
On October 1, I will present to my colleagues my candidacy for the presidency of the @Senate with a project to contribute to the vitality of democracy and restore the confidence that our country lacks so much.
- Gérard Larcher (@gerard_larcher) September 27, 2020
With around 150 elected in total, The Republicans remain the leading group in the Senate.
The leader of senators LR Bruno Retailleau was thus largely re-elected with 70.8% of the votes in Vendée.
The right is consolidating its majority with its centrist allies.
"We are back with victory", rejoiced on France Inter the boss of the party, Christian Jacob, on Monday.
The party boss hopes to continue this momentum for the coming deadlines.
"We won ten seats in the Senate, it is not nothing, it is not anecdotal, it is what will allow us to prepare for the other territorial, departmental and regional deadlines" of 2021, has t -he adds.
"These # Sénatoriales2020 are the continuation of our victory in the municipal elections where the French trusted @lesrepublicains. This new victory will allow us to prepare for the next events, the departmental and regional."
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- Christian JACOB (@ ChJacob77) September 28, 2020
The Republic on the move limits the breakage
After failed municipal elections, the majority party expected the worst.
“Everyone wants my skin!
“Even railed François Patriat before the vote.
The president of the LREM group finally got away in Côte d'Or, ahead of the socialist Colette Popard.
"It is not the berezina that we had announced", he reacted on Sunday, foreseeing at least as many elected LREM as the 23 of the previous term.
Because the marchers finally limit the damage by losing only a few seats (Dordogne, Gironde, Hérault, Vaucluse, Guyana) and by conquering others in Tarn, Eure, Finistère, Haut-Rhin.
In addition, the two members of the government in the running, Sébastien Lecornu in Eure and Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne in Yonne, were also elected, but will send their deputy to sit immediately.
Environmentalists form a new group
Logical continuation of their breakthrough in the municipal elections, the ecologists will be able to form a group at the Luxembourg Palace.
"There will be a green group in the Senate" with at least 10 elected officials, assured Senator EELV Esther Benbassa on Sunday evening, who will run for the presidency.
“We will be able to carry green texts and the proposals of the Citizen's Climate Convention.
This is a step ahead of the regional and departmental, ”she added.
At the start of the evening on Sunday, the senator already counted six victorious environmental candidates, in Bouches-du-Rhône, Gironde, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bas-Rhin and two in the Rhône.
Congratulations to the 6 elected @EELV who join the #Senate and will help form a green group!
- Yannick Jadot (@yjadot) September 27, 2020
"This morning, there are a dozen, and I think there are still other senators who are wondering," said Monday on Public Senate Ronan Dantec, senator from Loire-Atlantique, who hopes to be able to count on fifteen elected.
The green group could also attract Paulu Santu Parigi, the first Corsican nationalist elected to the Senate.
Objective achieved for the PS, the communists are getting stronger
No surprise for the Socialists either.
Patrick Kanner was satisfied to have achieved "the objective set", that of "remaining the 2nd group in the Senate", with around 65 elected.
The boss of the PS senators, however, regretted the loss of a few seats because of the divisions of the left.
"It is not the right which wins them, it is the left which loses them mainly by the division", he analyzed on Public Senate on Monday, citing the examples of Ardèche and Deux-Sèvres.
Following the #ElectionsSenatoriales, the CRCE group is strengthening.
This is the guarantee that the fight against social, fiscal and cultural injustices will be carried out with even more force in the hemicycle of the Palais du Luxembourg.
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- Senators CRCE (@senateursCRCE) September 27, 2020
In addition, the Communist Party won two new seats in Dordogne and Bouches-du-Rhône, while keeping the two put into play in Seine-Maritime and Côtes-d'Armor.
The RN saves its only seat
This is the little surprise of the ballot: the National Rally saved the only chair it still held in the Luxembourg Palace, with the surprise re-election of Stéphane Ravier in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
When the results were announced, the candidate himself seemed surprised: he had been beaten in his own stronghold in the 7th sector during the municipal elections in Marseille in June, losing in the process of many major voters.
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