Senate elections: a ballot without much stake

The Senate, located in the Jardin du Luxembourg, in Paris.

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Some 87,000 major voters are called to renew Sunday almost half of the 348 seats in the Senate.

An election that could be marked by a green breakthrough, but without changing the balance of power in the upper house, where the right has been in the majority since 2014.

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Barring an improbable twist,

 Sunday evening in the Senate.

We can, however, expect an environmental breakthrough given that the large voters called to the polls are in their great majority from municipal councils.

The results of this senatorial ballot will logically draw " 

" of the

elections

elections which have seen the right resist, despite a green wave in the big cities.

While the presidential party was biting the dust, the right, with its solid territorial base, took advantage of it and should therefore prevail and consolidate the presidency of

at the head of the upper assembly.

Towards an environmental group in the Senate?

On the left, the PS hopes to keep its place as the 2nd group of the Senate, or even to recover some seats of elected socialists passed to LREM in 2017, including that of François Patriat, the president of the Macronist group.

LREM could still emerge weakened from this senatorial election, for lack of local establishment.

However, two ministers, Sébastien Lecornu and Jean Baptiste Lemoyne, will nevertheless try to meet the challenge.

Finally, on the strength of their success in municipal elections, the ecologists, who currently only have 4 senators, hope to win a handful of elected officials to cross the bar of ten and finally be able to reconstitute a group in the Senate, which they had lost in the last 3 years.

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