France renews half of the Senate in indirect elections with the right-wing favorite

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Among other things, the positions of the Basque senators in Paris are being renewed. In Iparralde and Béarn, approximately 1,800 major voters will elect three representatives.

The French Senate will renew 170 of its 348 seats this Sunday in an election in which only 78,000 committed voters will participate and which is believed to The classical right and the centrists will repeat their historic majority.

Gerard LacherSpeaker of the House of Lords since 2014 and a historic member of the Republicans, is the favorite to regain office and serve his sixth term, while Renacimiento, the party of French President Emmanuel Macron, is expected to continue without a sufficient majority.

Among other things, the positions of the Basque senators in Paris are being renewed. In Iparralde and the Bearne around 1800 great voters They will elect three representatives.

The Basque Max Brissonfrom the right of the Republicans and the Béarnaises Frederique Espganacsocialist and centrist Denise Saint-Pe They have done ‘lobby work’ among all those voters to repeat the position.

In the previous elections 2017Espganac received the most votes and is the oldest senator.

For its part, the nationalist left tried to join Frédérique Espagnac’s lists, but no agreement was reached, and the PNV sent a questionnaire to the candidates to guide their vote. Finally, neither has issued instructions asking their voters to vote in accordance with their political values. The Nationalist Left has a few one hundred voters and the jeltzailes with a dozen.

Source: EITB

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