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.
Simon Achidi Achu was a Cameroonian politician who served as the prime minister of Cameroon from 1992 to 1996. Previously he was Minister of Justice from 1972 to 1975. A leading member of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM),Achidi Achu was appointed Chairman of the National Investment Corporation in 2003,and he was elected to the Senate of Cameroon in 2013.
The Senate is the upper house of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The senate was established in 1960,abolished in 1967 and re-established in 2003.
Indirect Senatorial elections were held in Mauritania on 21 January 2007,with a second round on 4 February 2007. There are 56 seats in the Senate. The senators were elected by 3,688 municipal councilors,except for three who were chosen by the elected senators.
Gérard Edmond Jacques Longuet is a French politician who served as Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 2011 to 2012. A member of The Republicans (LR),he represented the Meuse department in the Senate from 2001 to 2011 and again from 2012 to 2023.
Jean-RenéLecerf is a French politician and a former member of the Senate of France. He represented the Nord department and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party until 2015.
Jean-Louis Masson is a French politician. An Independent,he has served as a Senator for Moselle since 2001. He previously served as a member of the National Assembly for Moselle from 1978 to 1997. Masson is a former member of the Rally for the Republic (RPR) and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
Étienne Blanc is a French lawyer and politician who has served as a Senator for Rhône since 2020. A member of The Republicans (LR),he has also held a seat in the municipal council of Lyon since 2020.
Nicolas Bay is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. He served as General Secretary of the National Front from 2014 to 2017. He has served as a Regional Councillor for Normandy since January 2016,having previously served as a Municipal Councillor for Elbeuf from 2014 to 2015.
David Rachline is a French politician for National Rally. He was elected mayor of Fréjus in March 2014 and elected to the French Senate in September 2014.
Senators in France are elected by indirect universal suffrage,by a panel of "electors". Half of the Senate seats are up for election every three years;the term of office is six years.
Éric Bocquet is a French politician and member of the French Communist Party.
Fabien Roussel is a French politician who has served as national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) since 2018. He was the party’s candidate in the 2022 French presidential election where he placed eight in the first round. Roussel represented the Nord's 20th constituency in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2024.
HervéMarseille is a French politician who has presided over the Centrist Union group in the Senate since 2017 and over the Union of Democrats and Independents party since 2022. He has represented the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Senate since 2011.
Cathy Apourceau-Poly is a French Communist Party politician and a member of the Senate of France since July 2018.
Reconquête,stylized as Reconquête!,is a nationalist political party of France founded in late 2021 by Éric Zemmour,who has since served as its leader. He was a far-right candidate in the 2022 presidential election,in which he placed fourth with just over 7% of the vote as the best newcomer.
Mikaele Kulimoetoke is a Wallisian politician and member of the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna. He was president of the Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna from 2014 to 2017. He has represented Wallis and Futuna in the Senate of France since 2020.
Patricia Chagnon is a French politician from the National Rally. She has been a member of the European parliament from July 2022 to July 2024.
Eddy Casterman is a French politician.
Jean-Richard Sulzer is a French economist and politician.
