2023-09-26 17:09:44
The former Minister of the Interior, Brice Hortefeux, will not leave the European Parliament for the elegant Luxembourg Palace. The European deputy (PPE group) who appeared on the list of the senatorial majority of the right and the center (UD) running in Puy-de-Dôme was in third position anyway and therefore did not aspire to a place of senator.
The UD list obtained 24,12% of the votes and a single seat. The various left list also obtained a seat (24.23% of the votes), as did the right-wing union list (24.12%). There were three seats to be filled in this department.
In total, 35 candidates, spread over seven lists, were competing for only three places in this department where the ballot was proportional. The outgoing senators were: Jean-Marc Boyer (LR), Éric Gold (LREM) and Jacques-Bernard Magner (PS). Jean-Marc Boyer and Éric Gold were re-elected. Nationally, 170 of 348 Senate seats were up for renewal this Sunday. They were chosen by indirect universal ballot by 78,000 “electors”.
Close to Nicolas Sarkozy and former Minister of Immigration, Labor and the Interior, under the former president, Brice Hortefeux had been an MEP since 2011. In 2020, he was indicted for “illegal campaign financing electoral” in the context of the affair on the Libyan financing of Sarkozy’s campaign in 2007.
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