TREE NEWS update: France’s far-right National Rally (RN) will form a caucus in the Senate for the first time, party president Jordan Bardella announced on social media on the evening of September 27 after half the chamber’s seats were up for re-election. The group will be formed jointly with the party’s political ally, the Union of the Republican Right. Results from constituencies were still being released.
French Far-Right to Form Senate Group for First Time
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The RN's entry into the Senate is a structural shift: the upper house has long been a bulwark against the far right, and a formal caucus gives the party institutional standing, committee posts and a platform beyond the National Assembly. It matters most for the centre-right and Macron-aligned senators, who now face a rival bloc on their right. The open question is whether the joint group with the Union of the Republican Right holds as results finalise, and whether this Senate foothold translates into durable mainstreaming or remains a symbolic first.
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