Par Anne-Diandra Louarn
Published on 25 Sep 23 at 11:05 See my news Follow Le Républicain Lot-et-Garonne Christine Bonfanti-Dossat and Michel Masset were elected senators for Lot-et-Garonne on Sunday September 24. ©DR
Winds of change among the senators of Lot-et-Garonne. Of the two outgoing candidates, only Christine Bonfanti-Dossat of the Republicans (LR) was reappointed, during the senatorial elections, Sunday September 24, 2023. The centrist Jean-Pierre Moga gives up his seat to the Divers left and candidate of the departmental majority, Michel Masset.
Out of 1000 voters registered in the department and 981 voters, the votes in the second round were distributed as follows:
Christine Bonfanti-Dossat (replacement: Gaëtan Malange), Les Républicains: 465 votes; Michel Masset (replacement: Béatrice Lavit), Miscellaneous left: 451 votes; Jean-Pierre Moga (replacement: Marie-Laure Grenier), Miscellaneous center: 317 votes; Sébastien Delbosq (replacement: Cendrine Couturier), National Rally: 67 votes; Xavier Czapla (replacement: Chantal Quillot), La France insoumise: 21 votes.
Earlier in the day, the first round confirmed the lead of Christine Bonfanti-Dossat with 408 votes and the surprise breakthrough of Michel Masset and his 387 votes. In third position, Jean-Pierre Moga, obtained 291 votes. The candidates Jean-François Garrabos (Renaissance, 119 votes), Arnaud Devilliers (DVC, 83 votes), Maryse Combres (EELV, 74 votes), Colette Duynslaeger (PCF, 54 votes) and Monique Vadrot (LFI, 17 votes) had, as for them, threw in the towel in the second round.
“This election has defied the predictions”
“We are very happy to continue our work in the Senate for six more years, serving mayors, serving Lot-et-Garonne. Your trust honors and obliges us,” Christine Bonfanti-Dossat said on Facebook, posing all smiles with her co-list Gaëtan Malange. This is her second term as senator.
In the campaign since last February, Michel Masset’s investment has paid off. Rule of non-cumulative mandates obliges, the mayor of Damazan, departmental councilor and president of the Community of communes of Confluent and the slopes of Prayssas must now cede his functions.
” Victory [de Michel Masset] has something special since it defies the predictions considering the ‘leaver bonus’ as an invariable”, commented the president of the Departmental Council Sophie Borderie, in a press release.
This victory is undoubtedly that of a grassroots elected official, who has demonstrated his sense of listening, his efficiency, his sense of the general interest and his perfect understanding of territorial issues.
Sophie Borderie, pres. Departmental Council
The president also underlines “the worrying score of the National Rally which is clearly progressing during this election and whose reasons are undoubtedly to be found in the anger and resentment which fuel the protest expression of a growing number of our fellow citizens. »
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However, she says she is convinced of having in Michel Masset and his deputy Béatrice Lavit two “ardent defenders” of Lot-et-Garonne, capable of “rebuilding trust” between national representatives and local elected officials in order to “resolve the divide between metropolitan France and rural France. »
Moga left to “pack his boxes”
Jean-Pierre Moga, for his part, must go to Paris on Monday, “to pack his boxes,” he confided. The outgoing senator also congratulated Michel Masset and Christine Bonfanti-Dossat in a press release. “We hope that they will be elected representatives of all, without distinction, and that they will work to defend with strength and determination the interests of our department of Lot-et-Garonne and its inhabitants. »
The Senate must remain an assembly serving democracy, territories and fellow citizens, with a dual legislative mission and government control. In the Senate, we never say yes, out of discipline, never no out of dogmatism.
Jean-Pierre Mogat, former senator
Nationally, 80% of candidates for re-election retain their seats at the Luxembourg Palace, which remains dominated by the right of the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, and that of the president of the Les Républicains group, Bruno Retailleau. The Socialist Party remains the second largest group in the Upper House.
The Senate “will continue to be this essential counter-power to democracy,” declared Gérard Larcher, himself re-elected in Yvelines. “In a political context marked by the absence of a majority within the National Assembly, more than ever the Senate embodies this pole of stability, this point of balance of the Republic in the face of the deep crisis our country is going through. »
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