like the deputies, the senators approve by a large majority the security agreement between Paris and kyiv

After the Assembly, it was the Senate’s turn to examine the security agreement signed in mid-February between France and Ukraine, during a debate followed by a consultative vote, Wednesday March 13. Like the deputies, the senators approved the text by a large majority, by 293 votes and 22 against.

In a hemicycle which has no elected representatives from La France insoumise and only three from the National Rally, the declaration of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal did not give rise to debates as lively as at the Palais Bourbon, where the RN abstained. while LFI voted against. The immense majority of senators The Republicans, the leading political force at the Luxembourg Palace, voted in favor, despite six oppositions and four abstentions. Only the communist group voted against.

“Turning our back on Ukraine would mean turning our back on our values, betraying the trust of our allies, and showing weakness”said Gabriel Attal again at the opening of the debates, recalling as the day before that the conflict was entering into a “changing moment”in the presence of the Ukrainian ambassador to France in the stands, receiving a standing ovation from all the benches of the Senate.