Senate becomes critical partner to executive after dissolution

Since the dissolution of the National Assembly, the Senate has become a major actor in relations with government.

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The upper house, once trustful of the executive, now adopts a more distant and scrutinizing stance.

This evolution reflects the precarious balance of the new French political context.

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