According to the distribution of the different political groups, the right remains in the majority in the Senate while the left strengthens slightly by obtaining 99 seats.
Nine days after the senatorial elections, the composition of the different political groups in the Senate is now known. The presidency of the upper house of Parliament received, on Tuesday October 3, the list of members of each formation in order to decide on the composition of the Hemicycle. Unsurprisingly, the right remains in control, but it is losing a little ground with 133 senators out of 348 for Les Républicains (compared to 145 previously). Thanks to the support of the 56 elected representatives of the centrist Union group (compared to 57 before the election), it nevertheless retains its absolute majority.
On the other side of the Hemicyle, the communist group can count on 18 senators, the socialists on 64 parliamentarians and the ecologists on 17 elected officials. With 99 members (compared to 91 during the previous term), the left is therefore close to the symbolic bar of 100 senators. On the center-left, the European Democratic and Social Rally (RDSE) group also has 16 parliamentarians.
In the majority, the Macronist group (named Rally of Democrats, Progressives and Independents) managed to limit the damage with only two fewer senators (22). The Independents group, close to Edouard Philippe’s Horizons party, gained four senators (18).
Finally, four senators did not join any group. This is particularly the case of the three elected representatives of the National Rally, who were unable to form their own group, due to not having reached the bar of ten elected officials.
Once recomposed, the Senate will work on Wednesday to renew its office and its committees, again with intense negotiations in the corridors of the Luxembourg Palace. In the meantime, Gérard Larcher was re-elected president of the Senate for a fifth three-year term. At 74, the elected Republican was voted in favor against the socialist Patrick Kanner, the communist Cécile Cukierman and the ecologist Guillaume Gontard.