Winners but above all losers. After the senatorial vote, the right can rejoice, the left is strengthened, the RN is back… but it is a setback for the presidential majority.
On the right side, “the senatorial majority” of the right and the center “will be reinforced”, rejoiced the head of the senators, LR Bruno Retailleau, despite the loss of one or two senators. The right advanced without pressure after its leader LR Gérard Larcher (74), re-elected for a sixth term in Yvelines before a more than likely confirmation as president of the Senate on October 2. LR hopes to obtain “143 or 144 senators”, compared to the previous 145.
The left is getting stronger… without the rebels
On the left, the Socialist Party aims to remain the second largest group in the Senate (currently 64 senators). “Symbolically, it is important,” acknowledges the re-elected socialist leader in the North, Patrick Kanner, satisfied with having signed “an agreement in which everyone wins” with the communists and environmentalists in fifteen departments. With a fundamental ambition: to reach 100 left-wing senators in the chamber, compared to 91 before this renewal.
The bet was notably won in the capital, where this meeting sent eight of the twelve Parisian senators to the Luxembourg Palace, while the divided right gained four seats. The former green presidential candidate Yannick Jadot thus entered the Senate as did the communist Ian Brossat.
Horizontes has a smile.
However, on the left not everyone wins. This leftist alliance did not please rebellious France, dismissed due to lack of sufficient local coverage to fill the ranks of the Senate.
For the presidential majority, however, it was a sad evening. Since Sunday morning, the macronie registered an emblematic defeat, that of the Secretary of State for Citizenship, Sonia Backès, the only minister in contention at the national level, defeated in the second round in New Caledonia by the separatist Robert Xowie.
The RN returns with three elected officials
Former minister Brigitte Bourguignon, already defeated in the 2022 legislative elections, was defeated in Pas de Calais. Among his executives in the Senate, Renaissance saved the seat of Xavier Iacovelli (Hauts-de-Seine), but not that of Julien Bargeton in Paris. The Macronists, already reduced in number in the Senate, united in the RDPI group (24 elected officials), are paying for their weak local roots and risk having their troops diminish.
Like Louis Vogel, elected in Seine-et-Marne, Édouard Philippe’s Horizons party seems more confident after its municipal victories in Reims or Angers, synonymous with seats almost won.
Finally, the National Rally, absent in the Senate since the departure of Stéphane Ravier in Reconquête, returns to the upper house. The far-right party announced that it would win three seats: Christopher Szczurek in Pas-de-Calais, Joshua Hochart in the North and Aymeric Durox in Seine-et-Marne.
Source: BFM TV
