Marine Le Pen’s National Rally will, for the first time in party history, be able to form a political group in the French Senate, granting the populist party new powers and a sense of political ascendancy and respectability.
\n\nThe upper house of the bicameral French legislature is, like many institutions in the country, specifically designed to prevent political outsiders from gaining power in Paris, including the National Rally (RN) and its predecessor, the National Front, formed by Jean-Marie Le Pen. However, the poll-topping anti-mass-migration party broke a key barrier over the weekend, when around half of the Senate’s seats were up for grabs.
\n\nWhile the RN is projected to have more than the 10 senators needed to form a political group in the Senate, according to the AFP, the group’s ranks will be bolstered further with at least three senators of the Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party of Éric Ciotti, the former head of the Républicains, who sensationally broke with the establishment party in 2024 over his support for a Le Pen alliance against the liberal Macron government.
\n\nForming a group in the Senate comes with multiple perks, including representation on committees, increased public funding, and…
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