Oberhaus des Parlaments: Französischer Senat wird zur Hälfte neu gewählt
Die mit Abstand größte Gruppe dürften auch nach der Teilwahl im Senat die Konservativen bleiben. Aber schafft es das rechtsnationale Rassemblement National erstmals, eine eigene Fraktion zu bilden?
Paris - Seven months before the French presidential election, half of the Senate is up for re-election. The partial vote of the upper house of the French parliament has called around 93,500 municipal and regional politicians to cast their votes since morning. The current parliamentary chamber is dominated by conservatives. The Republicans hold the largest group with 131 members.
The Macron camp currently has 19 seats in the Senate. Significant power changes are not expected in the partial vote, but rather shifts within the right-wing majority. The Republicans may need to lose some seats. The critical question is whether the right-national Rassemblement National (RN) led by Marine Le Pen, who also plans to run in the presidential election, will secure enough seats to form the first party group in the Senate.
For this, ten seats are required, but so far the right-populist party has only three seats. As a faction, the party would gain more rights in the Senate. The Senate consists of 348 members elected for six years. Every three years, about half of the seats are re-elected. Now it is 178. While the Senate participates in legislation, it must submit to the decision of the lower house in case of conflicts.
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