Invited on TF1 on Monday evening, the PS-Place publique MEP called for “republican withdrawals” between the left and the presidential camp.
If some on the left still had some hope, Raphaël Glucksmann has just dashed them. The day after the first round of the legislative elections, at the end of which the New Popular Front came in second place and could win between 180 and 200 deputies on July 7, the PS-Place publique MEP acknowledged Monday evening on TF1 that “There will be no left-wing majority in the National Assembly, and there will be no Macronist majority either.” “These legislative elections are not even legislative elections anymore, it’s a referendum: do you want the far right to come to power in France or not?” detailed Raphael Glucksmann who is pushing for“one vote, one democratic bloc.”
Faced with the unique possibility of an absolute foundation for the National Rally and its allies, the essayist shared his «obsession» for the “Republican withdrawals”, which have multiplied on the left as in the central bloc in recent hours. What does this consist of concretely for the voters? “It is the capacity of someone on the left to vote for someone who is also far from his concerns, his desires, his principles, his wishes, his needs, like Laurent Wauquiez, and of someone on the right to vote for someone on the left, even forgetting the name of the deputy for whom he is voting because he simply refuses to give France to the Le Pen family.”continued Raphaël Glucksmann with enthusiasm, who had nevertheless left his mark on the European campaign and raised hope among many French social democrats and anti-Mélenchon.
“Never a choice that pleases us”
While many right-wing voters are unlikely to want to vote for La France Insoumise to block the flame party, he said “understand all the dizziness, all the anxieties, all the doubts.” “There is never a choice that pleases us. But I want us to prioritize the threats, the dangers (…) and today, we must know how to step aside,” pleaded the socialist, who called on the French “to delve into (them) and find the strength to vote for people we don’t like, who we fight against.” “Each of us will have very difficult choices to make.”
