Sunday, September 27, the Senate will renew 172 senator seats out of 348. With 18 days of the vote, the Republicans and their centrist allies in a majority position approach the deadline as a replica of the municipal elections, where they appeared as the victors of the territories.
This time, 90% of the 87,000 voters expected to vote will come from city councils.
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The senatorial majority will hold and could even be consolidated because these elections are only the reflection of the municipal ones where LR and his allies won 50% of the cities.
The French have made a choice and these elections will be an extension of it, ”
anticipates Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate.
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We can expect stability.
The right and the center have maintained an important level of presence in the communities and among the cities fallen to the municipal ones, some like Lyon and Strasbourg were already on the left ”
, notes for his part Hervé Marseille, the president of the centrist Union group.
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