Raphaël Glucksmann calls for “pushing back” the reform of the electoral body

Emmanuel Macron is expected in Nouméa (New Caledonia), where he is due to arrive on the morning of Thursday May 23 (local time, Wednesday evening Paris time) to install a “assignment” dialogue. The president of the Republic “is right to go there”estimates Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the Socialist Party (PS)-Place Publique list in the European elections, Wednesday in “4 Vérités” on France 2. “He must listen on the spot, and reconnect with the spirit that had dominated politics since Michel Rocard”he says, speaking of a “spirit of consensus building”. “It is with this spirit that Emmanuel Macron broke by entrusting the Matignon file to Place Beauvau, to Mr. Darmanin”deplores Raphaël Glucksmann.

The head of the PS-Place Publique list in the European elections also denounces “the politics of the chin, of haste” practiced by the government, in reference to the reform of the electoral body in New Caledonia, a text which triggered riots in the archipelago. “The fact of rushing everything without waiting for a local consensus was a major break with the spirit that had predominated until now. And, in a flammable situation, it precipitated chaos”, analyzes Raphaël Glucksmann. For him, it is therefore necessary “repel” this reform, and “start again in the spirit of the global consensus”.