This is the first clash in negotiations that have only just begun.
Eight months before the senatorial elections in September, the leaders of the presidential Renaissance party (ex-LREM) have chosen to launch their troops in the campaign, without waiting for an agreement with their allies Horizons and Democratic Movement (MoDem).
They reinvested their twelve outgoing senators on Monday *, during the back-to-school executive office chaired by the boss of the macronist formation, Stéphane Séjourné.
The seats subject to this renewal of the Senate by half are concerned - in departments 37 (Indre-et-Loire) to 66 (Pyrénées-Orientales), those of Île-de-France, six overseas territories and for six French senators abroad.
A way to lock places deemed threatened by the ambitions of MoDem and Horizons partners.
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“These twelve elected officials are loyal, they have worked and they have the legitimacy of universal suffrage,
” explains Renaissance spokesperson Loïc Signor.
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