“In 14 days, I will not hesitate. I will choose to block the road to the extreme right: Marine Le Pen should not be president of our country. (…) We will then have to fight for our principles, relentlessly, to oppose when necessary, but now we just have to counter Le Pen. By voting for his opponent in the second round, Emmanuel Macron. I have a principle: whatever the candidate facing the far right in the second round, I will always vote for this candidate,” thus solemnly wrote Raphaël Glucksmann on his Instagram account.
The father of Gabriel, 5, whom he had with Léa Salamé, and Alexandre (11), whose mother is politician Eka Zgouladze, is a committed man who regularly shares his opinions on the networks. social. For the first round, he had signed an open letter with the movement he co-founded Place Publique, declaring that the party would not support any candidate and therefore not Anne Hidalgo (PS). A decision that was criticized by some socialists, recalling that the party had made an alliance with Place Publique during the European elections.
Very involved in the Ukrainian question, he who is an expert in the geopolitics of this area of the world, Raphaël Glucksmann has always denounced the historical pro-Putin positioning of Marine Le Pen. From his platform as a convinced European, he had declared shortly before the first round, on April 7: “The truth is that in France, a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic owes millions of euros to oligarchs close to the Kremlin and that she is obliged to the enemies of European democracy. (…) Marine Le Pen sold herself to Vladimir Putin a long time ago and that she can perhaps become President of France tomorrow.” A Russian loan which had also been put on the table by journalist Anne-Sophie Lapix in Elysée 2022, enough to anger the candidate of the National Rally. She has also clearly indicated that she does not want to face her for the debate between two rounds.