Far Right Gains Ground in French Senate
Marine Le Pen called the result a historic victory as RN and its ally reached 14 seats and qualified for an official Senate bloc.
- On Sunday, France's far-right National Rally and its allies won a record 14 seats in the French Senate election, quadrupling their presence in the 348-seat upper chamber.
- Local elected officials cast ballots for half of the Senate's seats in an indirect system designed to give greater influence to regional and rural areas, where right-wing parties historically maintain stronger support.
- With nine newly elected senators added to three existing members, the party achieved 12 seats total, while two additional victories came from ally Eric Ciotti's Union of the Right for the Republic .
- Holding more than 10 seats allows the party to form an official bloc in the Senate for the first time, a development Marine Le Pen hailed as "a historic victory and a major milestone."
- Right-Wing dominance in the Senate persists ahead of next year's presidential election, where Marine Le Pen is a candidate to succeed President Emmanuel Macron in a chamber that can launch government investigations.
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Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and its allies won a record 14 seats.
France's far-right National Rally (RN) party and its allies won a record 14 seats in elections to the right-wing-dominated Senate on Sunday.
Marine Le Pen secures 'historic' election success just months before France picks next President
French firebrand Marine Le Pen has hailed an "historic victory" after her National Rally (RN) party secured a record number of seats in the country's Senate.RN picked up nine seats, more than quadrupling their count in France's 348-seat upper chamber.A total of 178 seats were up for grabs in Sunday's election, where MPs and more than 170,000 councillors vote on behalf of the public.With more than 10 senators, Ms Le Pen's party can now form a cau…
France's far-right National Rally party (RN) and its allies secured a record 14 seats in the right-dominated Senate in Sunday's election, effectively quadrupling their representation in the 348-seat chamber just months before the presidential election.
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