Senate President Gérard Larcher (LR), 73, announced on Thursday that it was "
fairly likely
" that he would again be a candidate for his succession after the September senatorial elections which will renew half of the senior assembly.
“
It is quite likely that, if my colleagues trust me, I will be a candidate for the presidency of the Senate
,” he declared on France 2, after confirming that he would run for a new term as senator from Yvelines.
“
I deeply believe in Parliament, I deeply believe in bicameralism
,” he added to justify this new candidacy.
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This is why I am so attached to ensuring that this debate on the question of pensions, one of the pillars of the social model, is a debate that goes to the end, I believe that it is important if we want the French to regain confidence in the parliamentary democracy.
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Gérard Larcher was elected President of the Senate for the first time in 2008. Replaced in 2011 by the socialist Jean-Pierre Bel, he took over the reins of the upper assembly in 2014, before being reappointed by his peers in 2017 and 2020 Former Minister of Labor under Jacques Chirac (2004-2007), he was first elected senator for Yvelines in 2004, before being re-elected in 2011 and 2017.