"Not only the PS is not dead, but today this galaxy continues to turn,"
argued Patrick Kanner on the set of "Talk-Le Figaro" Tuesday.
On September 27, senatorial elections will take place, which will renew half of the Upper Assembly.
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Candidate for his re-election as president of the socialist group, the senator of the North has clearly indicated that the balances of the Senate, today dominated by the right, will not be upset.
"The right will regain the majority, Gérard Larcher will be a candidate for his succession," he
projects.
The principle is that
"symbolically the opposition gives itself a candidate for the presidency of the Senate".
Kanner suggests that it could be him, on the one and only condition of being re-elected at the head of his group.
The former minister specifies that the decision will have to be collegial, in consultation with his communist and environmental colleagues.
There may be an attempt at reconstruction through the process initiated by Sébastien Lecornu, candidate in the Eure
Patrick kanner
“One of the main novelties of this election, he
underlines,
it is perhaps the recreation of a Green group within the left
(…)
as before 2017,”
he said.
EELV can thus hope for four or five elected in this ballot, added to the Green senators already in office, including Esther Benbassa who could run for the presidency.
On the basis of the results in the municipal elections where
"there were generally good agreements",
and given the green wave that swept away many cities, the senator pleads for continuity to also make common cause with the senatorial ones who, he says ,
"Are the fourth blade of municipal".
As such, he recalls that mayors and municipal councilors represent 95% of the electorate.
His goal?
Remain the second group of the Upper Assembly with its 71 seats and the first parliamentary opposition group.
The senator specifies that in number,
"we are more important than all the parliamentary groups of the National Assembly on the left".
There remains, however, an unknown, that of the parliamentary majority group which could lose a few seats.
"There may be an attempt at reconstruction through the process initiated by Sébastien Lecornu, candidate in the Eure",
the Socialist is wary.
The objective of LREM being to create a presidential majority group "
by going to steal
" here and there in other groups.
If he fights for clarity, Patrick Kanner recalls that the Upper Assembly
"must remain a counter-power"
adding that
"it is not in the confusion that we do positive work".
No doubt for the former minister of François Hollande, France needs a High Assembly
"which says something other than the governmental doxa".
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