2023-09-28 01:23:35
Three days after her defeat in the senatorial elections, Secretary of State for Citizenship Sonia Backès resigned this Wednesday, Le Parisien learned from a source close to the executive, confirming information from the Figaro. Beaten on Sunday by Caledonian separatist Robert Xowie by 307 votes to 246, she was the only member of the government to run in the senatorial elections.
As announced by our colleagues from Le Figaro, Sonia Backès announced her departure from the government following an interview with Emmanuel Macron this Wednesday afternoon. She is therefore not present at the presentation of the executive’s plan to combat school bullying. Unlike the legislative elections, the Élysée had not formulated a rule in the event of the defeat of a member of the government in the senatorial elections.
His substitute would have sat in the Senate in the event of victory
In the event of victory on Sunday, Sonia Backès announced that she would not take office following this election. “As long as I am Secretary of State, it will be my deputy (Gil Brial, Editor’s note) who will sit in the Senate,” she assured the press when formalizing her candidacy.
Sonia Backès entered the government on July 4, 2022 by retaining her position as president of the southern province of New Caledonia, contrary to the custom which requires a minister to resign from his local executive functions when called to government. This tradition has, however, not always been respected: Sébastien Lecornu, member of the government, was at the same time president of the departmental council of Eure, a position from which he finally resigned at the end of 2022. He was also elected senator in 2020 but left his substitute to sit in his place.
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