French Far-Right Leaders Say They Have Won Enough Seats to Form Senate Caucus
- France’s National Rally and its allies won a record 14 Senate seats, nearly quadrupling their previous total in the 348-seat chamber.
- The result gives RN and its allies enough senators to form a formal Senate group for the first time.
- RN President Jordan Bardella said the party’s senators would ally with the Union of the Right for the Republic.
- Marine Le Pen called the result “a historic victory” as she prepares for the 2027 presidential election.
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Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen's radical right-wing party, once again secured electoral gains in the French Senate elections on Sunday....
Marine Le Pen celebrates a "historical victory", with his party and allies winning enough seats to form a group in the Senate, a few months after the presidential elections. La France Ensoumise also managed to debut in the Senate.
France’s Far-Right Surges in Senate Elections
“The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said her 2027 presidential campaign will be boosted after her anti-immigration party, the National Rally (RN), and its allies secured a record 14 seats in partial senate elections this weekend,” The Guardian reports. “Le Pen called the results a ‘historic victory’ and ‘major milestone’ after her party […]
French Right Keeps Senate Majority as National Rally Expands Presence
France's right-wing parties retained their majority in the Senate after Sunday's partial elections, while Marine Le Pen's National Rally made significant gains in the upper house. The RN won nine new seats, allowing it to form its first Senate group together with its UDR ally.
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