French media report that ethnic Korean Senator Jean-Vincent Placé will become the floor leader of France’s central-left political party “the Greens” in the Senate.

French daily Le Figaro said Socialist Party Floor Leader Jean-Pierre Bell officially submitted to the plenary session a revision of rules on forming negotiating bodies in the Senate. Currently, political parties can form negotiating bodies if they hold 15 seats in the Senate. But the revision will lower the number of seats to ten.

The French ruling UMP is also in favor of the revision. As a result, the Greens will be able to form an independent negotiating body early next year with the ten senatorial seats it won in an election in September, this year.

Placé was adopted from South Korea to a French family when he was seven years old. The 43-year-old senator said that he was deeply honored to be become his party’s floor leader.