We were no longer used to seeing the right smile.
The senatorial elections which were held this Sunday, renewing half of the assembly, confirmed the majority on the right and the center, which thus keeps control of the Luxembourg Palace.
And therefore on the first place of opposition to Emmanuel Macron.
The result is not so much of a surprise, this "3rd half of the municipal elections" was to confirm the strong establishment of LR and its allies at the local level, but it puts a little wind in the sails of an opposition that sometimes struggles to exist.
This evening, the senatorial majority of the right and the center is reinforced.
On October 1, I will present to my colleagues my candidacy for the presidency of the @Senate with a project to contribute to the vitality of democracy and restore the confidence that our country lacks so much.
- Gérard Larcher (@gerard_larcher) September 27, 2020
"This election, in an unprecedented health, economic and social context, reinforces the senatorial majority of the right and the center", soberly commented Gérard Larcher on Twitter, indicating that he would logically be a candidate for his own succession to the presidency.
The Republicans, the first group in the Senate, which had 144 seats in total before the election, should even afford the luxury of progressing slightly.
"A failure for En Marche and the President of the Republic"
"It is due to the work but also to the line which has been ours during these last three years: neither systematic opposition (
Editor's note: to the President
), nor complacency", comments the leader of LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, him easily re-elected in Vendée.
"The government has shown that it was having trouble managing the crisis, it is important that France has a demanding opposition", continues Retailleau, who sees in the senatorial "a failure for En Marche and the President of the Republic".
It is an understatement to say that, in the wake of the municipal elections, the presidential party will not have shone, but it still saves the furniture.
Its leader, the former socialist François Patriat was reelected in Côte-d'Or, and the two candidate ministers, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne and Sébastien Lecornu, also won.
En Marche retains a group, and hopes to maneuver to poach senators sitting elsewhere.
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“LREM has shown that it has no territorial presence.
The macronie is a pyramid which rests only on its tip (
Editor's note: the President
) ", for his part shouts Patrick Kanner, leader of the socialist senators, who for his part counted on a" stability "of his group.
He also welcomes the creation of a future environmental group.
“If there is a green group, it is also because the PS has been able to take its responsibilities at the local level.
It is a lesson for the left, which is reinforced thanks to the union ”, continues the elected representative of the North, however regretting some losses where it could not be done.
For environmentalists, it's one more victory
The ecologists, who had lost their group in 2017 - a threshold of 10 elected representatives is needed - will be able to sit together again.
“It is not a group that is created against others, on the contrary, it enriches the left opposition.
The left needs the ecological matrix to renew itself, ”insists Senator (Generation-s) Sophie Taillé-Polian, who will be part of the new team.
In the environmental camp, it is hoped that this group will be another milestone posed in the garden of preparation for regional, then in 2022.
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The last highlight of these senatorials, the only senator of the National Gathering Stéphane Ravier managed to keep his seat, while he had lost his sector town hall in Marseille during the municipal elections.
“The Senate will hear from me 6 more years!
Exclaimed the elected RN on Twitter.