Closed! The ballot for senatorial elections ended at 5:30 p.m. this Sunday, September 27. The first results, in the least populated departments, showing a bonus for graduates, with in particular several LR and centrists, majority in the Senate, re-elected in the first round.
The renewal by half of the Senate every three years is played 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. The Overseas Territories are also renewed with the senators of Guyana and 4 communities (Wallis and Futuna, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, French Polynesia). 117 outgoing candidates represented themselves.
Alain Joyandet reelected in Haute-Saône
In departments with two-round majority voting, candidates were elected in the first round. This is the case of the president of the group of Independents, Claude Malhuret, reelected in the Allier.
In The Republicans, in particular from the first round were re-elected Quaestor Rémy Pointereau (Cher), Cédric Perrin in the Territory of Belfort, Claude Nougein in Corrèze, Alain Joyandet in Haute-Saône, Jean-Jacques Panunzi in Southern Corsica, Philippe Mouiller in the Deux-Sèvres or Daniel Gremillet in the Vosges.
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.
On the left, the PS announced in particular the re-election of Gisèle Jourda (Aude), Nicole Bonnefoy (Charente), Jean-Jacques Lozach (Creuse), Franck Montaugé (Gers) and the election of Serge Merillou (Dordogne). In Yonne, the Secretary of State for Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was on a waiver after the first round.
The LREM leader threatened
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. It’s hard to say more
, according to Mr. Retailleau, who should be reelected in Vendée. LR has 75 renewable seats out of 143 and the centrists 24 out of 51.
Sunday night, we will have a global vision, but not the detail of the composition of the groups
, warns Mr. Marseille.
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 recomposition objective, confides Mr. Lecornu’s entourage.
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