Credit: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP Gerard Larcher, elected President of the Senate for the second time
Grandmaster arcane Senate is back the “plateau” (the nickname of the Presidency of the Senate). Gérard Larcher was elected Senate president unsurprisingly Wednesday 1 October. A position he already knows well, having previously held the chair from 2008 to 2011 .
Veteran political
His main opponent, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, was ousted before the vote during the primary to the group of senators UMP. Admittedly, Gerard Larcher had prepared the ground for many years, declaring candidate in February and multiplying meetings every day with local elected officials and peers senators.
He knows very well the Senate: his election in the Yvelines dates back to 1986 He was 36 years . His political career began three years ago by winning the Hall of Rambouillet, where he is constantly re-elected. He gives up his mandate to take the portfolio of Minister of Labor under President Jacques Chirac. Nevertheless, he finds his Senate seat from 2008, where he wins for the first time the president .
“Baby Blédine” a bon vivant man and networks
Born in Flers Orne in 1949, Gerard Larcher amounted sauce RPR he joined in 1986 with Charles Pasqua and Jacques Chirac. It is distinguished by its ability to be appreciated by his peers, including his political opponents. The environmentalist Senator Jean-Vincent Place recognizes as “a real Republican, friendly and friendly.” Human networks, he won the respect of social partners when it occupies the Ministry of Labour for his listening skills.
Gérard Larcher is also a “good living”, in his own words. Lover of good food, horses (he was fourteen years veterinary) and fine wines, it would have been “ Baby Blédine crowned before he could walk ” according to a biography. He joked, “I already had a good appetite”
Attached to his vision of the Senate
From. return to the “plateau”, he campaigned on the links with local communities and defends the usefulness of the institution to the Republic. It is “not for the gold palace” that is seeking the presidency. “Everyone who knows me knows that I’m indifferent,” he says
No, it is “appalled by what happened to the Senate. Jean-Pierre Bel (the outgoing socialist president) and its majority, the Senate was a boat down “. “Let us demonstrate that the Senate is useful to the Republic, which is essential to the representation of the territories too often forgotten,” he said on Twitter, and on September 28.
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