It's a year that changes everything.
The President of the Republic and the deputies are elected for five years, the senators are for six.
The concomitance of the presidential and legislative elections structures, barring accidents, a uniform political sequence.
The senatorial shift instills a welcome counter-song in the execution of the national partition.
Regardless of the partisan balance, it requires nuance or consideration of other points of view.
Faced with the unilateral temptations of any presidential party, it is precious.
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Beyond this question of the duration of mandates, we will also observe that the High Assembly resists the partisan cadres who organize national political life.
While the election of the Head of State by universal suffrage imposed an increasing bipolarization, the Senate has always opposed a more complex geography, refusing the transposition of that of the Assembly and transcending divisions, with a centrist group not always ally to the right and
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