France's far right gains ground in indirect Senate elections

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party and its allies secured 14 seats out of 348 in France's indirect Senate elections on Sunday. The outcome marks the first time in the party's history that it has won enough seats in the upper house of the French parliament to form its own parliamentary group.

The French Senate undergoes indirect elections for half of its seats every three years. This recent electoral cycle resulted in the far-right bloc achieving the threshold required for formal parliamentary group recognition within the upper chamber.