Like every three years, half of the senators are renewed.
A relative renewal, if we stick to the first results of the poll closed late Sunday afternoon.
These 2020 senatorials are for the moment favorable to outgoing elected officials.
In departments with two-round majority voting, candidates were elected in the first round.
Among the Republicans, were notably re-elected the quaestor Rémy Pointereau (Cher), Cédric Perrin in the Territoire de Belfort, Claude Nougein in Corrèze.
The centrists announce the re-election of Dominique Vérien (UDI) in Yonne, Philippe Bonnecarrère (Tarn), Bernard Delcros (Cantal), Evelyne Perrot (Aube).
Among the Independents, is also reelected Daniel Chasseing in Corrèze.
The president of the group, Claude Malhuret, is returned to the Allier.
The leaders of the two main components of the majority, Bruno Retailleau (Les Républicains) and Hervé Marseille (centrist) expect the current political configuration to be maintained.
LR has 75 renewable seats out of 143 and the centrists 24 out of 51.
According to Bruno Retailleau, who should be re-elected in Vendée, "it's difficult to say more".
Sunday evening, "we will have a global vision, but not the details of the composition of the groups," warns Hervé Marseille.
172 seats at stake
The renewal by half of the Senate every three years is played out at the level of the department.
This year, 172 seats out of 348 are concerned, ie elected representatives from 58 metropolitan departments between Ain and Indre and between Bas-Rhin and the Territoire de Belfort, excluding Ile-de-France.
Overseas are also renewed the senators of Guyana and 4 communities (Wallis and Futuna, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, French Polynesia).
117 outgoing candidates represented themselves.
In the most populous departments, with at least three senators, proportional representation applies.
The main voters who vote are 87,000, mainly representatives of the municipalities, but also of the departments and regions.
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On the left, "the simulations suggest that the PS group (second in the Senate with 71 seats, including 35 renewable) will remain at the same level", indicated its president Patrick Kanner.
The surprise announced should therefore come from environmentalists.
Towards the creation of an environmental group?
With five new elected officials, which seems feasible on paper, which would be added to a “core” of five senators already in place - the ecologists Esther Benbassa, Guillaume Gontard, Ronan Dantec, Joël Labbé and Sophie Taillé-Polian of Générations - the account would be good for forming a group.
But a little "fair", recognizes Ronan Dantec who hopes to reach 12 members.
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A La République en Marche, weakly represented in the Senate (23 senators including 10 renewable), the boss of the group François Patriat is himself threatened in Côte-d'Or by the socialist Colette Popard, close to the mayor of Dijon François Rebsamen.
At the Luxembourg Palace, LREM is now setting itself a longer-term restructuring objective, confides the entourage of Sébastien Lecornu, LREM Minister of Overseas Affairs who should be elected in the Eure.
Among the candidates, there were also two former PS ministers, Marie-Arlette Carlotti (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Jean-Jacques Urvoas (Finistère), as well as nine deputies.
The CRCE group with a communist majority has only three renewable senators out of 16. Even with the departure of Esther Benbassa and Guillaume Gontard, it is assured of its maintenance.
The accounts are more delicate for the RDSE with a radical majority (14 renewable out of 24), but its president Jean-Claude Requier hopes to maintain this “historic” group.
Same hope among the Independents, created in 2017, despite six renewable seats out of 13. As for the RN, it risks losing its only senator, Stéphane Ravier.
