“I have not spent my life in the circles of Parisian elites,” defends Raphaël Glucksmann

The head of the socialist list responds to certain voices on the left who denounce his profile as a Parisian left-wing intellectual, very far removed, according to them, from the working classes.

“I have not spent my life in the circles of Parisian elites”, defends Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the Socialist Party/Public Square list in the next European elections, Monday February 26 on franceinfo. The MEP thus responds to those who criticize him, on the left, like the deputy La France insoumise François Ruffin, who accuses him among other things of being the representative “of an elite that advances, with arrogance and unconsciousness.”

“I didn’t leave Sciences Po to go to Davos”, where the World Economic Forum is held every year, retorts the essayist. No, he is “left directly into the mass graves of Rwanda and then went to Ukraine and Georgia”. “I don’t want to campaign simply in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, I’m going to go to the factories, I’m going to go to the farms, even if it means getting yelled at like the rest of the left on the theme ‘you’ve let us down, you abandoned us'”he adds.

“What I want to show is that we have a project that will respond to the anxieties and concerns of French people who are today the victims of globalization, and that if we want to take back control of our destiny faced with this globalization, if we want to domesticate the multinationals which have outsourced for 40 years, we will only be able to do it on a European scale, and that is a real debate on the left”he says again to his detractors.

It doesn’t stop there. “What I want to show the French people is that all the debates we are having today in the European Parliament have a direct impact on their daily lives. If you have in the corner of your street a Starbucks and a PMU which both sell coffee and the Starbucks pays three times less taxes than the PMU, it is because the decisions which are taken at European level are bad, because it There are tax havens like the Netherlands in which Starbucks decides to pay its taxes.he emphasizes.