The Senate is the upper house of the French Parliament,with the lower house being the National Assembly,the two houses constituting the legislature of France. The French Senate is made up of 348 senators elected by part of the country's local councillors,as well as by representatives of French citizens living abroad. Senators have six-year terms,with half of the seats up for election every three years.
The Senate is the upper chamber of Parliament in Burundi. It consists of between 39 and 56 members who serve 5-year terms. The current Senate was elected on 20 July 2020 and consists of 39 members.
Claude Malhuret is a French physician and politician of Agir who has been a member of the Senate since 2014,representing the department of Allier.
A senator for life is a member of the senate or equivalent upper chamber of a legislature who has life tenure. As of 2021,six Italian senators out of 206,two out of the 41 Burundian senators,one Congolese senator out of 109,and all members of the British House of Lords have lifetime tenure. Several South American countries once granted lifetime membership to former presidents but have since abolished the practice.
Jean-Claude Gaudin is a French politician for The Republicans. He served as the Mayor of Marseille from 1995 to 2020.
Alain Richard is a French politician who has been serving as Senator for Val-d'Oise since 2011.
Gérard Longuet is a French conservative politician who has served as a member of the Senate from 2001 to 2011 and again since 2012,representing Meuse. He served as Minister of Defense in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from February 2011 until May 2012.
Gérard Philippe RenéAndréLarcher is a French politician serving as President of the Senate since 2014,previously holding the office from 2008 to 2011. A member of The Republicans,he has been a Senator for the Yvelines department since 1986,with an interruption between 2004 and 2007,when he was Minister for Employment,Labour and Professional Integration of Young People under President Jacques Chirac. Larcher also served as Mayor of Rambouillet from 1983 to 2004 and again from 2007 until 2014.
The Communist,Republican,Citizen and Ecologist group is a parliamentary group in the French Senate,the indirectly elected upper house of the French Parliament. Unlike most other parliamentary groups in the Senate,it counts mostly of only the Senators of one party,the French Communist Party,among its members.
François Autain was a French politician. Over his career,he was a member of the Communist,Republican,and Citizen Group and a member of the Left Party,prior to which he was a member of the Citizen and Republican Movement but also the PS and the PSU.
Étienne Blanc is a French politician who has served as a Senator for Rhône since 2020. A member of The Republicans (LR),he previously served as Mayor of Divonne-les-Bains (1991–2019) and represented the 3rd constituency of Ain in the National Assembly (2002–2016). Blanc was also First Vice President of the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes from 2016 to 2020.
The administrative meeting of senators not appearing on the list of any group is the term used since 1976 to refer to the grouping of members of the Senate of France who are not registered as belonging to any political group. It is not itself a formal parliamentary group,although a group of non-registered members existed from 1968 to 1976,first under the name of the group of non-registered members from 3 October 1968,and later the group of the union of senators not registered with a political group from 30 June 1971 to 1976,both of which elected their own presidents. Non-inscrits have not always formed a group;in the records of the Journal officiel,such members were listed under the title of senators not registered with a political group from 1959 to 1960 and 1964 to 1967,as well as under the appellation of senators neither appearing on a list nor associated with a group list from 1961 to 1963,1968 to 1969,and in 1973.
Laurence Rossignol is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has served as a member of the French Senate from 2011 to 2014 and again since 2017,representing Oise. From 2014 to 2017,she served as Secretary of State for the Family,Senior Citizens and Autonomy in the governments of Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.
A senator for life was an honorary position in the French Third Republic,similar to that of senator for life in other countries. At one time the French Senate was composed of 300 members,of whom 75 were inamovible ("unremovable").
Sylviane Noël is a French politician. She has served as a member of the Senate of France since 2018,representing the Haute-Savoie department. Noël is the first women to represent the department in the Senate. She is a member of The Republicans.
Jean-Louis Masson is a French politician and retired Gendarmerie officer who represented the 3rd constituency of the Var department in the National Assembly from 2017 until his resignation in 2020. A member of The Republicans (LR),he has served as Mayor of La Garde since 2020,previously holding the office from 2001 to 2017. Masson has also presided over the Departmental Council of Var since 2022.
