Sending Mirage to Ukraine, June 6, 1944, Emmanuel Macron in the European campaign… Raphaël Glucksmann’s “8:30 am franceinfo”

The head of the PS-Place publique list in the European elections was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Friday June 7, 2024.

Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the PS-Place publique list in the European elections, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Friday June 7, 2024. Sending combat planes to Ukraine, commemorations of 1944 and Emmanuel Macron, European elections… He answered questions from Jean-Rémi Baudot and Agathe Lambret.

“Emmanuel Macron is right” to send combat planes to Ukraine

The President of the Republic announced Thursday June 6 that he wanted to send Mirage 2000-5 fighter planes and a brigade of instructors to Ukraine. “Emmanuel Macron is rightreacted Raphaël Glucksmann. The red line is: no direct military confrontation with Vladimir Putin’s Russia on the part of Western countries.” He adds that France is not “cobelligerent” according to him. “Don’t believe Putin’s propaganda. We are helping an invaded nation to resist. It is not simply out of solidarity with Ukraine that we must help it resist, but it is out of awareness of our vital interests, because we are the targets of Vladimir Putin’s crusade, because security in Europe is now being played out on the Ukrainian front.”

“What bothers me is that the president is taking the opportunity of the commemorations to appear on all the news”

Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian President, spoke to the National Assembly this Friday morning. The LR, RN parties and several rebels denounce the exploitation of the conflict on the part of Emmanuel Macron. For Raphaël Glucksmann, this presence does not bother him “absolutely not. Volodymyr Zelensky is welcome in the National Assembly and it is important that he speaks.” The socialist candidate took the opportunity to react to the interview given by Emmanuel Macron, following the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Landing. “What bothers me is that the President of the Republic, three days before a vote as important as the European elections, seizes the opportunity of the commemorations to go on all the news and only talk for two minutes about the Landing “. He accuses him of having exploited the context to talk about international politics and the European elections. “In what European democracy would this happen?”

“We managed to awaken enthusiasm, hope”

According to an Ipsos poll for Radio France and Le Parisien, published Thursday, Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the PS-Place publique list in the European elections, received 13.5% of voting intentions, one point less than in May. But he prefers to see the glass half full: “We started at 8%. We managed to awaken enthusiasm, hope, he rejoices. Nobody believed in us. Everyone had buried the pro-European humanist left of Jacques Delors, of Robert Badinter.” Raphaël Glucksmann sees himself as “the alternative, the dike and resistance to the extreme right”.

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