At the Luxembourg Palace with the family. In the midst of the renewal of the 170 seats of the Senate, which took place this Sunday, we find a story, certainly not new in Parliament but not ordinary either: a father and his daughter will sit together in the Senate, also in the same group, that of the centrist Union, allied to the right with which it forms the majority.
The father, Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe, is a regular. Reelected this Sunday in Pas de Calais, he begins his fourth term as dean of the Senate at the age of 84. Her daughter, Isabelle Florennes, 56, enters the upper house, after her election in Hauts-de-Seine.
“It is not nepotism”
A department where the MoDem spokesperson had been elected deputy during the previous legislature, before running for a second term in 2022 and losing in the second round against the current environmentalist deputy Sabrina Sebaihi, then the Nupes candidate.
This is not the first time that Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe and Isabelle Florennes have worked together. The second was, in fact, the first’s parliamentary assistant in the Senate, between 2004 and 2017. Enough to guarantee her good knowledge of the functioning of the institution.
“She made her trip alone,” her father defended her in The world this Saturday, to justify his presence in second position on the list headed by Hervé Marsella, president of the centrist Union group. “I didn’t say to Hervé: ‘You have to take my daughter.’ It’s not nepotism,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
