In the Senate, Bruno Retrailleau (LR) announces a “reinforced” right and center majority
“The senatorial majority” right and center “will be comforted”rejoiced the leader of Les Républicains senators Bruno Retailleau to Agence France-Presse (AFP). “The LR group will remain the most important by a long, long way”with a “stability”, he underlined, confirming his candidacy for his own succession at the head of the group. Bruno Retailleau also denounced a “new failure of the President of the Republic” in the Senate, due to the “disconnection of macronism with the field”.
The right advanced without pressure in the wake of 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 expects to obtain “143 or 144 senators”compared to 145 previously.
From Sunday morning, the macronie recorded an emblematic defeat, that of the Secretary of State for Citizenship Sonia Backès, the only minister in the running at the national level, beaten in the second round in New Caledonia by the separatist Robert Xowie. Among its executives in the Senate, Renaissance saved the seat of Xavier Iacovelli (Hauts-de-Seine), but not Julien Bargeton in Paris. Already reduced in numbers in the Senate, the Macronists united within the RDPI group (24 elected officials) are paying for their weak local roots, and risk seeing their troops diminish. In Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the former Minister of Overseas Affairs Annick Girardin was elected.
Like Louis Vogel, elected in Seine-et-Marne, Édouard Philippe’s Horizons party seems more dashing after its municipal victories in Reims or Angers, synonymous with almost won seats.