In the Senate, prejudices die hard: those of a gilded retirement home with thick carpet for bedridden elected officials.
“
People say to me, 'Are you sure you want to be a senator at 34?
Do you want to retire? ””
Jokes Sébastien Lecornu at a public meeting in Nonancourt.
The room laughs.
The Minister of Overseas Territories and LREM candidate for the senatorial elections in the Eure knows that he is on target.
La Fontaine's fable, that of the
Hare and the Tortoise,
whose representations adorn the chairs of the presidency of the Senate, does it not speak of a
"senator's train"
?
"The senator's train is not osteoarthritis but the image of wisdom ...",
likes to retort Gérard Larcher
.
To read also:
Guillaume Tabard: "The Senate, a precious assembly in lack of headliner"
In a few years, the upper house has become younger, with an average age of 63, and feminized with a third of senators against barely 6% twenty years earlier.
Above all, the house has been renewed.
The President of the Senate takes the test on each of his trips: almost half of the Senate delegates vote
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