In the Senate, the elections should not change the balance

The "green wave" of municipal elections may have shaken the big cities, it should not overwhelm the Senate. With the approach of the senatorial elections of September 27, during which some 87,000 "big voters" are called to renew half of the hemicycle, the parties are preparing for a great stability. "The Upper Assembly is a liner, it takes a big storm for it to change course," notes a pillar of the institution. Few senators doubt the outcome of the election: a Senate still on the right - its political color since 1958, with the exception of the ephemeral Socialist majority, between 2011 and 2014 - and a reappointment of its president, Gérard The Archer.

● LR and his allies hope to consolidate their majority

The loss of Marseille and Bordeaux in the municipal elections does not seem to worry them: The Republicans are preparing to find the current balance in the renewed Senate. According to projections by LR senators, the group, which sees a majority of its seats handed over

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