2023-09-25 09:39:44
The national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, Marine Tondelier (left), with Yannick Jadot, elected senator from Paris (center) and other environmentalist senators, during the election evening at the Senate in Paris, September 24 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “THE WORLD”
It was all in all a good evening for the left, Sunday September 24. Without any outpourings either, the Senate remaining, as expected, under the control of the right and the center. But each of the left-wing groups already present at the Palais du Luxembourg – socialist, environmentalist, communist – has made a little progress. Enough to bring them, in total, from 91 seats to around a hundred, and to ease the bitterness of the few narrowly missed victories, linked to the disunities and the votes brought together by the autonomous lists of La France insoumise (LFI).
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On the positive side, the alliance of the left and environmentalists is a hit in Paris. “The match in Paris is eight senators for the left and the environmentalists, four for the right”, greeted Yannick Jadot, elected in the capital with two environmentalist colleagues, Antoinette Guhl and Anne Souyris. At the national level, environmentalists officially go from 12 to 15 senators, unofficially to 17, with the negotiated arrival of two additional senators. This corresponds to a scenario in the low range envisaged. A few days before the election, some thought they could reach around twenty elected officials. The number now seems out of reach, even counting upcoming negotiations with new entrants without a label.
“Biodiversity in the Hemicycle”
Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), however, achieves the feat of stealing a seat from the right in Yvelines, stronghold of the president (Les Républicains) of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, but also of keeping one in Val-de-Marne despite the divisions of the left, where a dissident socialist, Akli Mellouli, entered the Senate in the ranks of the environmental group. The president of the group, Guillaume Gontard, was re-elected in Isère, and, for French people established outside France, the ecologist Mathilde Ollivier joined the group at the age of 29; she becomes the youngest member of the Senate. Something to rejoice in Marine Tondelier, number one at EELV: “Environmentalists are bringing biodiversity into the Hemicycle and into the bills. »
Claude Raynal, socialist senator from Haute-Garonne, during the election evening at the Senate in Paris, September 24, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “LE MONDE”
On the socialist side, the group remains at 64, or even a little more depending on future negotiations, and remains the leading opposition group. “There was a lot of risk in this campaign”, notes Patrick Kanner. The president of the group says he is satisfied and believes that overall, the left and the Greens will “become familiar with the 100 mark and pass it”, if we take into account the left-wing radicals. The socialists, who renewed half of their seats, kept their strongholds in the North (Patrick Kanner), Val-d’Oise (Rachid Temal), and Landes (Eric Kerrouche). They conquered new ones in Seine-Saint-Denis, where they went from one to two senators, and won a new seat in Morbihan and Essonne. In Val-de-Marne, the socialist Laurence Rossignol was re-elected at the end of an uncertain campaign, after having been exfiltrated from her stronghold of Oise by a protégé of Olivier Faure, Alexandre Ouizille, who is also elected.
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