Overview

• API News reported, and the senator confirmed to AFP, that he will leave the Senate on 6 October 2025, with notice sent to local mayors.
• Guerriau says the departure fulfills a promise to hand the seat midterm to his running mate Marie-Pierre Guérin, the mayor of La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne.
• Sandrine Josso denounced the move as a strategic retreat ahead of court proceedings, rejecting any link to a prearranged handover.
• Investigative judges have ordered Guerriau to stand trial at the Paris criminal court on charges of administering high-purity MDMA to facilitate rape or sexual assault and for drug possession.
• He remains suspended by Horizons and the Les Indépendants group, and the Senate presidency has signaled a referral to the chamber’s ethics committee.