2023-09-24 23:34:30
This is not the big wave hoped for by some in the National Rally (RN), but a real breakthrough: by propelling three of its own into the Senate, despite a reduced number of electors, the far-right party is making its return to the Palace of Luxembourg. The RN was no longer represented there since the departure, during the 2022 presidential campaign, of Marseillais Stéphane Ravier for Reconquête!, Eric Zemmour’s movement. With three senators, the RN is within the average of its ambitions, which ranged from one to six seats. It is doing a little better than in 2014, when the party entered the Senate thanks to David Rachline and Stéphane Ravier.
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All three aged under 40, the new representatives of the RN in the Senate are novices in national political life, all locally elected: Christopher Szczurek, 38, first deputy of Hénin-Beaumont, stronghold of Marine Le Pen, is elected in Pas-de-Calais; Joshua Hochart, 36, opposition municipal councilor in Denain, east in the North; Aymeric Durox, the least expected, is a regional councilor for Ile-de-France, 37 years old, elected in Seine-et-Marne. Unable to constitute a group of ten senators, they will sit among the non-registered with their former comrade Mr. Ravier. On the other hand, Sébastien Meurant, another senator member of Reconquête!, missed re-election on his list classified as various right, by three votes.
For the National Rally, the disappointments come from Moselle, Oise and Pyrénées-Orientales. In this last department, Charles Pons, deputy of Louis Aliot at the town hall of Perpignan and coming from the right, finished a good distance from the Les Républicains (LR) and socialist candidates. “We didn’t imagine having a group this time, puts the vice-president of the National Assembly Sébastien Chenu into perspective, but we can hope for it thanks to the next renewal [en 2026]. »
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The three RN senators will work in conjunction with the group in the National Assembly, with 88 deputies, and assure that they want to lead, at the Luxembourg Palace, a “firm but constructive opposition”. They will, however, have few means of existing, like MM. Rachline and Ravier.
An unexpected progression
The strategy of rallying small local elected officials historically classified to the right and mobilizing deputies elected a year ago has borne fruit for the far right. In the North, Joshua Hochart, close to Sébastien Chenu, had the mayor of the town of Hautmont as third on the list. He almost doubled his score. In Seine-et-Marne, Aymeric Durox, who came close to a victory in the legislative elections, steals a seat from the LR list by multiplying the 2017 score by four. In Pas-de-Calais, where the RN holds the towns from Hénin-Beaumont and Bruay-la-Buissière, Christopher Szczurek obtained 557 votes, above the 500 hoped for by those close to him. In this former stronghold of the Socialist Party (PS), which still holds the departmental majority, the RN passes, by one vote, ahead of the socialist list.
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