Published on 28/09/2026 – 8:26 GMT+2 • Updated

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France’s far-right National Rally (RN) party and its allies secured a record 14 seats in the right-wing dominated Senate in polls on Sunday, effectively quadrupling its number in the 348-seat chamber just months before a presidential election.

RN presidential candidate Marine Le Pen hailed a “historic victory” after the results were announced.

Local elected officials vote for new senators for half the upper chamber every three years, each to serve a six-year term.

The far-right party entered the Senate for the first time with two seats in 2014, when it was known as the National Front, and won…

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