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Nicholas Sarkozy
The conservative party played down what it considered a narrow victory of the Socialists, up to three seats in the Senate, seven months before the presidential elections. Thus, the minister for parliamentary relations said that the elections held on Sunday had no national importance.
Conversely, the leader of the Socialist group in the Senate Jean-Pierre Bel announced the victory of his group, even though it was only an election to fill half of the seats in the Senate. Bel said that this is a day “that will mark history.”
The Senate president is the one that replaces the president of France should the incumbent president become incapacitated. Even so, the upper house of the parliament is considered an institution specialized in doing things without the same importance than the lower one. It is however the house that initiates bills or slows their passage in the parliament.
The conservatives have controlled the Senate since 1958, when the First Republic was established. According to Socialist Jean-Pierre Bel, the left has acquired 24 to 26 new seats, though it needed only 23 seats in order to take control of the upper house.
The Union for a Popular Movement, Sarkozy’s party, known as UMP, in an effort to save face, put the accent on the vote on October 1 for the president of the chamber, given that the left’s victory has a thin margin.
The Socialists said that their success is due to the discontent of the people in French towns and rural communities. The head of Sarkozy’s party said that the results represent a disappointment not a surprise. He said that the vote does not reflect the popular disapproval of governmental policies.
Francois Hollande, which is a favorite to the candidacy for the presidential elections, said on Monday that the victory in the Senate could help the Socialists in the presidential elections next year.
The Socialist party had a serious setback earlier this year, when the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested for charges of sexual assault on a housekeeper at the hotel where he was staying.
DSK’s case was dropped after he was presented to the entire world in shackles and before the judges. The prosecutors found out that the young woman who accused the banker had a record that would have made the case against DSK very vulnerable and most likely to be dropped.
It was thus that the conspiracy theories appeared since the first days of the scandal. Many considered that the case was a set up intended to remove DSK from the French presidential race next year. DSK was credited with high chances of success, and it was said that he stood a good chance of defeating Sarkozy.
Since he returned to France, DSK made an appearance on national television, in which he said he had made some “human errors” but denied any abuse on women. His performance was considered pathetic even by some of his Socialists colleagues, who advised the public to close the DSK chapter.
Segolene Royal, the one who ran against Sarkozy last time on behalf of the Socialist party, said that it was time that DSK be forgotten, and that this should have been done earlier.
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