{"id":1689,"date":"2026-09-29T05:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2026-09-29T05:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:55:05","slug":"national-rally-makes-historic-gains-in-frances-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/national-rally-makes-historic-gains-in-frances-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"National Rally Makes Historic Gains in France\u2019s Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bareen Media &#8211; The Guardian reports that Marine Le Pen\u2019s National Rally (RN) and its allies won a record 14 seats in France\u2019s partial Senate elections, giving the party enough seats to form a Senate group for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results add to the party\u2019s presence in France\u2019s upper house ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Nine RN candidates won seats in Sunday\u2019s vote, adding to three existing RN senators, while two seats went to the party\u2019s ally, \u00c9ric Ciotti\u2019s Union of the Right for the Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France\u2019s 348-seat Senate remains dominated by traditional right and centre-right parties. The Senate uses an indirect voting system in which local elected officials, including mayors and councillors, choose senators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guardian says the result gives the National Rally greater visibility and parliamentary resources as France moves toward its next presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bareen Media &#8211; The Guardian reports that Marine Le Pen\u2019s National Rally (RN) and its allies won a record 14 seats in France\u2019s partial Senate elections, giving the party enough seats to form a Senate group for the first time. The results add to the party\u2019s presence in France\u2019s upper house ahead of the 2027 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,448,127,367,27,1],"tags":[452,141,369,454],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-reports","category-elections","category-europe","category-france","category-middle-east","category-uncategorized","tag-2027-election","tag-france","tag-french-politics","tag-gerard-larcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}