{"id":81263,"date":"2026-09-28T04:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/81263"},"modified":"2026-09-28T04:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:43:41","slug":"far-right-gains-ground-in-french-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/81263","title":{"rendered":"Far right gains ground in French Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>France\u2019s far-right National Rally (RN) party and its allies secured a record 14 seats in the right-wing dominated Senate in polls Sunday, effectively quadrupling its number in the 348-seat chamber just months before a presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RN presidential candidate Marine Le Pen hailed a \u201chistoric victory\u201d after the results were announced.<\/p>\n<p>Local elected officials vote for new senators for half the upper chamber every three years, each to serve a six-year term.<\/p>\n<p>The far-right party entered the Senate for the first time with two seats in 2014, when it was known as the National Front, and won three seats in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen is eyeing her best chance yet at power in elections next year when centrist President Emmanuel Macron steps down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a historic victory, and a major milestone with the formation for the first time of a group in the Senate,\u201d she said on X.<\/p>\n<p>Nine RN senators were elected on Sunday, according to an AFP tally of results, on top of the three who won seats in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more: <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/france-submits-new-proposal-ban-social-media-under-15s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France submits new proposal to ban social media for under-15s<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A further two were elected from RN ally Eric Ciotti\u2019s Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party.<\/p>\n<p>RN president Jordan Bardella said the party\u2019s senators would form a group with UDR allies.<\/p>\n<p>Ciotti quit the right-wing Republicans (LR) party in 2024 after calling for an alliance with the far right.<\/p>\n<p>The upper chamber\u2019s LR president of more than a decade, 77-year-old Gerard Larcher, is expected to be re-elected next week.<\/p>\n<p>The right, centre and left-wing Socialists looked set to remain the three major forces in the upper house, according to initial results.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party won its first-ever seat.<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen\u2019s anti-immigration party emerged as the single largest party in the lower-house National Assembly after Macron called snap polls in 2024, though it fell well short of a majority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/far-right-gains-ground-in-french-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s far-right National Rally (RN) party and its allies secured a record 14 seats in the right-wing dominated Senate in polls Sunday, effectively quadrupling its number in the 348-seat chamber just months before a presidential election. RN presidential candidate Marine Le Pen hailed a \u201chistoric victory\u201d after the results were announced. 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