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Also known as French Senate, Senate of France
مجلس علیای پارلمان فرانسه
Key facts
- Type
- Upper house of the French Parliament
- Founded
- 4 October 1958 ; 67 years ago ( 1958-10-04 )
- Preceded by
- Council of the Republic , ( Fourth Republic )
- New session started
- 2 October 2023 ; 2 years ago ( 2023-10-02 )
- President
- Gérard Larcher , LR , since 1 October 2014 ( 2014-10-01 )
- Political groups
- SR (130) S (65) UC (59) LIRT (20) RDPI (19) CRCE (18) RDSE (17) E (16) RASNAG (4)
- Length of term
- 6 years
- Voting system
- Indirect election
- First election
- 26 April 1959 ( 1959-04-26 )
- Last election
- 24 September 2023 ( 2023-09-24 )
- Next election
- September 2026
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- senate
- Part of
- French Parliament
- Official name
- SENAT
- Country
- France
- Headquarters
- Luxembourg Palace
- Chairperson
- Gérard Larcher
- Official website
- www.senat.fr
- Image
- Palais Luxembourg Sunset.JPG
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- Senate
- Commons category
- Senate of France
- topic's main category
- Category:Senate (France)
- Commons gallery
- Sénat (France)
- number of seats
- 348
- applies to jurisdiction
- France
- native label
- Sénat de la France
- inception
- 1859-04-28
- external data available at URL
- data.senat.fr
- position held by head of the organization
- President of the Senate of France
- replaces
- Council of the Republic
- citizens' initiative URL
- petitions.senat.fr
- different from
- Senat
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