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French presidential candidate Raphaël Glucksmann said Monday that the "battle begins" to revive the country's divided left ahead of the 2027 election. The EU lawmaker was elected Sunday as the centre-left candidate with more than 66 percent of the vote.
In France, a primary organised by the opposition Socialists and their centre-left allies held this Sunday has resulted in a clear winner. He is Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament and founder of the “Place Publique” party. He emerges now, at age 46, as a major figure in the election campaign for the French Presidency. That election will be held in April. Story by Nicholas Rushworth.
The Socialist Party now has its official candidate for 2027, it is MEP Raphaël Glucksmann. This is discussed with our guests Emilie Zapalski, editorialist and political communicator, and Noé Girardot-Champsaur, associate expert at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation.
"A left faithful to its values can unite, rule and win," says the candidate for the French presidency
Raphaël Glucksmann won the primaries of the French Social Democratic Left with 66.13% of the votes and became his candidate for the 2027 presidential. The Euro MP promised to defeat the extreme right of Marine Le Pen and to mark distances with both the macro and the radical left of Jean- Luc Mélenchon. A cyber attack forced the electoral process to continue one day.
Raphaël Glucksmann has won the primary to represent the French centre-left in the upcoming presidential elections, securing 66% of the vote. He now faces the challenge of building support for the centre-left in a political landscape where the far right, led by Marine Le Pen, remains a major force.
Euro MP Raphaël Glucksmann was elected on Saturday as a candidate for the Social Democratic Left President with 66.17% of the vote. At a press conference, he presented himself as "the candidate of the democratic left" who "will beat" the far right" of Marine Le Pen. Follow our direct.
The first round of the Social Democratic Primary begins on Friday. Some 140,000 voters will choose their presidential candidate from among five contenders, including the favourite, Euro MP Raphaël Glucksmann Public Square, and his challenger, the boss of PS Olivier Faure.
In a second television debate on Thursday evening, the five candidates for the Social Democratic Left's primary, and in particular Glucksmann and Faure, opposed a possible alliance with LFI and the use of the word "genocide" in Gaza. On the other hand, they were unanimous about Bardella's "disqualification" after Mediapart's accusations of anti-Semitism.
Emmanuel Macron received on Friday at the Élysée the main candidates for his succession, or their representatives, for a meeting dedicated to the rise in fuel prices and the geopolitical situation. Édouard Philippe, Gabriel Attal, Bruno Retailleau, Raphaël Glucksmann, Olivier Faure, Marine Tondelier and Fabien Roussel will be present. Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be represented by Jordan Bardella and Manuel Bompard.
