France: the Senate remains on the right, breakthrough of the Greens, LREM resists
The hemicycle of the French Senate, at the Luxembourg Palace.
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The senatorial elections intended to renew half of the upper house in France took place this Sunday.
Unsurprisingly, the Senate remains predominantly on the right, and environmentalists, strong in their push for municipal elections, will be able to reconstitute a group there.
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No upheaval at the Luxembourg Palace which remains anchored to the right, with the strong territorial anchoring of the Republicans.
The boss of the Senate Gérard Larcher was the first to rejoice Sunday evening even before all the results fell to greet a "
majority of the right and the center consolidated
".
A victory which ensures Gérard Larcher a re-election for a 4th term, next week as President of the Senate.
Defeated in the municipal elections, LREM, the president's party, for its part just saves the furniture, the boss of the macronist group François Patriat is thus re-elected on the wire with a few hundred votes.
Environmentalists are confirming their electoral push in the territories and should be able to reconstitute a group with at least 10 senators, thus gaining more powers and visibility in the upper house.
Finally against all expectations, despite his defeat in the last municipal elections in Marseille, Senator RN Stéphane Ravier was re-elected to the Senate, the only representative of Marine le Pen's party in the upper assembly.
He will also be alone: for the first time, a Corsican nationalist, Paul Toussaint Parigi, accedes to the Senate, after being elected in Haute-Corse.
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