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Raphaël Glucksmann (center), head of the list of the Socialist Party and Place Publique for the European elections, with Olivier Faure (left) and Johanna Rolland (between the two), mayor of Nantes, at the end of a meeting of campaign in Saint-Herblain (Loire-Atlantique), April 13, 2024. SEBASTIEN SALOM-GOMIS / AFP
The weather was nice in Nantes on Saturday April 13. In the morning, the socialist mayor, Johanna Rolland, feared that her activists had gone to the beach, but no, they were there, in front of the city’s Zenith, to see their candidate, Raphaël Glucksmann.
The head of the list of the Socialist Party (PS) and Place publique in the European elections of June 9 has the advantage of being in the lead on the left in the polls, in third position behind Jordan Bardella, the candidate of the National Rally, and Valérie Hayer, that of the presidential Renaissance party. This good position has almost magical effects: it reconciles all the tendencies of the PS, each of which compliments this news. « incarnation » party. And their projections for the continuation of the balance of power on the left.
For Raphaël Glucksmann, for his part, there is no question for the moment of going into this very perilous internal terrain. On Saturday, the candidate focused on talking about Europe and only Europe, evoking a project of “ecological power”. In a speech that was sometimes reminiscent of that of environmentalist Yannick Jadot during the 2022 presidential campaign, he praised sobriety as the key to freedom and French and European geopolitical independence.
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“All the energy we don’t consume is one step closer to freedom and democracy”he said, before proposing an energy renovation plan for all schools in Europe.
LFI against “the zombies of Dutchism”
The next day, in Montpellier, Manon Aubry, head of the La France insoumise (LFI) list, and her running mates opposed the European project ” powerful “ socialists a protective tone, mixing “national and European protectionism” and a program to combat “system of eurocrats” neither neglecting the balance of power nor disobedience.
Labor inspector Anthony Smith, fourth on the list, has promised to try to reduce the number of workplace deaths on the continent to zero. Not without scratching the socialists: “At a time when the zombies of Dutchism appear in this election, we do not forget that even before Macron, the Hollande five-year labor law [en 2016] violently attacked labor law. »
The number one of LFI, Manuel Bompard, criticized the “talk from the platform, from the platform”from his rival, the day before. “How can Mr. Glucksmann claim to be the candidate of ecology when he has among his supporters Ms. Carole Delga, who defends the Toulouse-Castres motorway? », he said. Manon Aubry also ventured into PS-bashing: “Some yesterday in Nantes dreamed of returning to the Macron front. I suggest you prepare for the aftermath”she said.
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