Stéphane Ravier (RN), Sébastien Lecornu (LREM), Bruno Retailleau (LR) and Marie-Arlette Carlotti (PS) have one thing in common: they are candidates for the senatorial elections of September 27, 2020. -
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Every three years, half of the seats in the Senate are put back into play, in a vote in which only large voters are expressed.
Sunday, September 27, 1,449 candidates will have to be decided to fill 172 seats.
Among them, some headliners are running for a mandate at the Luxembourg Palace, including two ex-LR appointed to the government, a macronist in danger, an ambitious right-wing cador, a socialist well placed to win, and a frontist who tries to save the only senator's seat held by the RN.
They are 1,449 for 172 seats.
The senatorial elections scheduled for Sunday, September 27 must fill half of the upper chamber, dominated by the right.
Among the candidates, there are some political figures.
Retail review.
Sébastien Lecornu in the Eure
You may not know him, but this former LR, only 34 years old, aspires to be elected LREM senator in Eure.
Despite his agenda as Minister of Overseas Territories, Sébastien Lecornu is leading an active campaign and can count on the support of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who accompanied him to the meeting on Wednesday.
The former minister in charge of local authorities was elected in the first round of municipal elections in Vernon, in the same department.
His list, made up in particular of outgoing right-wing senators, has a good chance of winning.
If he is elected on Sunday, Sébastien Lecornu should, as for the municipal elections, choose to keep his ministerial portfolio and let his number 2 sit.
But this election could be a step towards the presidency of the Normandy region, currently held by the centrist Hervé Morin.
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne in Yonne
Unsuccessful candidate for nomination in Biarritz during the municipal elections, the Secretary of State for Tourism is back in Yonne, where he was a senator from 2014 to 2017. Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne is also from the right, and he notably faces two UDI candidates.
In case of victory, he has already announced that he would leave his mandate to his deputy, Marie Evrard.
François Patriat in the Côte d'Or
The president of the LREM group in the Assembly is playing big, and he knows it.
“They want my skin!
», He tells us, conscious of being a target for the left as for the right.
Senator of the Côte-d'Or since 2008, first under the Socialist flag, then Macronist, the septuagenarian is leading a drastic campaign to thwart the forecasts.
“I have traveled 13,000 km and visited more than 600 municipalities”, he proudly claims.
In the department, three seats are to be filled on a proportional basis.
The right should keep two and the third will be disputed between François Patriat and the socialist Colette Popard, a close friend of the mayor of Dijon, François Rebsamen, supported by a large part of the elected officials of the agglomeration.
If he manages to save his seat, another perilous mission awaits him: to enlarge the LREM group in the Upper House (currently 23 seats), probably by trying to recruit centrist senators, since the presidential party is not expected to win many new seats.
Bruno Retailleau in Vendée
The president of the LR group, which dominates the Senate with 144 seats, is seeking a third term in his stronghold in Vendée.
If he manages to get re-elected, Bruno Retailleau, a candidate already declared for a possible right-wing primary, will be reinforced in his presidential position.
He will be even more so if he manages to enlarge his group by taking a few more seats.
Because LR may be the first group in the upper house, the party does not have an absolute majority.
Its leader relies on the stability of its number of elected officials, enough to allow Gérard Larcher, whose seat is not at stake on Sunday, to be quietly returned to the presidency of the Senate.
Marie-Arlette Carlotti in the Bouches-du-Rhône
As during the municipal elections in Marseille, the left presents a union list for the senatorial elections, with the PS, the PCF and EELV, even if there was no national agreement between the parties.
Marie-Arlette Carlotti, historical figure of socialism in the Phocaean city and former minister of François Hollande, appears in second position, behind the departmental secretary of the PCF Jérémy Bacchi.
The union of the left could allow the socialist candidate to obtain a seat in this department where the ballot is played on a proportional basis.
But it will face competition from another leftist list, that of Jean-Noël Guérini, a former strongman of the local Socialist Party, referred to the criminal court for "illegal taking of interests".
Stéphane Ravier in the Bouches-du-Rhône
In 2014, Stéphane Ravier was one of the first two frontists to be elected to the Senate, along with David Rachline, before the latter left the upper chamber because of the law on the non-accumulation of mandates, preferring to be mayor of Fréjus.
After the loss of the town hall of the 7th sector of Marseille, which he had left in 2017 to his niece, Sandrine D'Angio, the seat of Stéphane Ravier is threatened.
As for that of David Rachline, it was entrusted in 2017 to the number 2 of the frontist list, Claudine Kaufmann.
But she left the party in 2018 and joined the movement of Nicolas Dupont Aignan Debout la France.
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