Senator elections: Marine Le Pen hails “historic turning point” for RN after election of 3 senators.

Only results from Guadeloupe and Martinique are missing. Senate X (formerly Twitter) indicates that these will be published “nightly” from Sunday to Monday. “There are recent results from mainland France,” says the Senate.

Born on June 9, 1994, Mathilde Olivier became the new youngest member of the Senate, just a few weeks younger than Socialist Remi Gordon, who was born on May 3 of the same year. The young woman, a senator for the French people abroad, considers it important to “represent the climate generation in institutions” in the Senate and the Assembly. He is one of the new faces as the Speaker of the Senate. Communist Party Ian Brossaud or Annick Girardin, former Minister of the Sea (2020-2022) in the Castex government.

The outcome of these elections is not surprising. The right and center retain their majority in the Luxembourg Palace. At left, Yannick Jadot and Ian Brossard become senators. The National Rally gained 3 seats, marking the return of the RN to the Senate. Find the full results in our dedicated article.

Leader of the RN delegation Marine Le Pen hailed the election of three RN senators as “a historic turning point” for her party.

“Congratulations to our three newly elected senators, who allow us to represent the patriots in the Senate competently and to defend the ideas we have for France! “, she also affirmed.

“Socialists are making progress,” said Boris Vallad, head of the Socialist Deputies, on X (ex-Twitter). He congratulated “the socialist senators elected this evening”.

Twelve seats are up for grabs in the capital. Among the lucky winners was former EELV presidential candidate Yannick Jadot, the fifth of eight elected from the left-wing trade union list led by the outgoing Rémy Ferrat. It got 54.58% of the votes. The LR list led by the outgoing Catherine Dumas won 19.46% of the vote and 3 seats. Agnes Evren, head of the various rights list, took last place.

“I am delighted by the great victory of the right in these senatorial elections,” Republican Party leader Eric Ciotti said in a press release issued by his party on X (formerly Twitter). “The local elected officials of our country are sending a strong message this evening: the right always brings a message of hope,” he said, adding that “the Republicans will be a solid opposition and implement a plan for France and the French”.

The head of the LR committee in the Senate Bruno Retailio welcomed the “very good results” which “confirm the independence and seriousness of the responsibility and seriousness of the work of the Senate”.

After 15 years, Yannick Jadot, a former ecological candidate for the 2022 presidential election, is returning to the national political stage by becoming a senator from Paris, convinced that he is “still useful for political ecology and political life”.

LR Group leader Bruno Retailio welcomed a “confirmed senatorial majority” in the upper house that “must be dominated by the right”. “The LR group will be the biggest in the long run,” he said with “stability”, confirming that he would be a candidate for his own successor as chairman of the group. Bruno Riedailio condemns the “new defeat of the republican president” due to “Macronism’s disconnection with the field”.

Vincent Louault (Various Centre), Pierre-Alain Roiron (Left Union) and Jean-Gérard Paumier (Various) were elected senators in Indre-et-Loire. None of the three were already senators.

No change in Pyrénées-Atlantiques. The three outgoing senators, Denis Saint-Pé (Modem), Max Brisson (LR) and Frédéric Espagnac (Other Left) will return to their seats in the Luxembourg Palace.

Two LR candidates, Lauriane Josende and outgoing Jean Sol, were both elected in Pyrénées-Orientales. They scored 52.92% and 47.24% respectively in the second round.

Outgoing Frank Manonville (UTI) was re-elected as senator. Various right-wing Jocelyn Antoine also approaches the Luxembourg Palace.

Far-left candidate Raphaël Daubet was elected senator in the constituency after receiving 58.93% of the vote in the second round. PS candidate Jean-Marc Vayssouze-Faure was elected in the first round with 63.57% of the vote.

Outgoing LR candidate Christine Bonfanti-Dossat retained her seat in Lot-et-Garonne. He received 48.14% of the votes in the second round. Second place went to Divers lefty Michael Masset, who received 46.69% of the vote in the second round.

Two seats to be filled in Haute-Marne were won by the right in the second round. Divers lead first with righty Anne-Marie Nedelek (48.45% in second round) and outgoing LR Bruno Seidow (33.98% in second round).

Polling stations, located mostly in the provinces, closed at 5:30 p.m. on mainland France, AFP reported. The first results – which come to us in trickles and lulls – confirm stability in relation to the current composition of the Senate.

Three lists share four seats to be filled in the Assembly. The “Reunion Land of France and Europe” other rights list has 35.86% and two places with Vivian Mallet (outgoing) and Stéphane Fouacin. The diverse left list “Preserving the Future of Mass in the Senate” won 25.28% of the vote and one seat. Its list leader, Audrey Belim, will sit. Finally, another diverse left list “Left for Reunionese” also won a place (21.61% of votes). So sitting in the Senate is Evelyn Carpier Naminso.

It is the first sector where voting based on proportional representation reveals its results.

Outgoing senator Reverend Thani Mohamed Soilihi retained his seat in Mayotte with 48.86% of the vote in the second round. Omar Wylie (Miscellaneous Center) won the second round with 55.70% of the votes.

The two outgoing senators were re-elected in the first round in Haute-Loire, where two seats were filled. Olivier Cigolotti (UDI) and Laurent Duplomb (LR) received 79.14% and 74.45% of the vote respectively.