The left-wing European elected official and leader of Place publique is speaking for the first time since the legislative elections, as the left-wing forces prepare to be received by Emmanuel Macron.
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“We must turn the page on Macron and Mélenchon”. The interview given by Raphaël Glucksmann, and published in The Point Tuesday, August 20, has the appearance of a political comeback, as he had not spoken since the last legislative elections. The European deputy and leader of Place publique is now distancing himself from the new union of the left, as long as it does not accept “negotiate compromises” and that she does not give up on the “radicality”.
If he claims not to have “never believed in magic sanitation” of his differences with La France Insoumise, Raphaël Glucksmann considered the New Popular Front as ““a unity of electoral action against the extreme right”He also criticised the strategy adopted after the legislative elections: “It would have been necessary to initiate a dialogue on the evening of the second round with the political parties that participated in the Republican front against the National Rally”he explained, citing as priorities the increase in the minimum wage, the return of the Wealth Tax and the acceleration of the ecological transition.
While Emmanuel Macron is bringing together, on Friday, the various party leaders, parliamentary groups and Lucie Castets, to appoint in the “extension” From these discussions a new Prime Minister, the European elected representative swept aside the hypothesis of his arrival at Matignon. “My responsibility is to build an intellectually dominant social force, with a credible project for transforming society” he explained in this interview, making an appointment at the Socialist Party summer university at the end of August in Blois.
