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Significance
In the Council’s election on May 7, the Republicans, a relatively new far-right party, obtained a landslide victory. However, suggestions that the party is in pole position to form the next government in 2026 are extremely premature.
Impacts
The right, with Republicans’ 23 seats and the centre-right’s eleven, has the two-thirds majority to control the Constitutional Council.
The next important test of the political climate will be regional and local government elections in October 2024.
Attention will now focus on the (sometimes controversial) voting record of Republican representatives in Congress.
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