Raphaël Glucksmann makes his political comeback at La Réole and displays his ambitions to lead the left “to power”, without LFI

Apart from a few drops of rain, the weather was ideal this weekend in La Réole, a small fortified town in Gironde 60 kilometers from Bordeaux, to welcome the political start and the new ambitions of Raphaël Glucksmann. Specificity of the place, its mayor, Bruno Marty, is one of the few councilors labeled Place publique, the small party of the MEP. This former socialist had made his town hall, his former Benedictine priory, and its breathtaking view of the Garonne available to the elected official.

Eternal midnight blue suit, immaculate white shirt, and irremovable smile, Raphaël Glucksmann spent two days removing an ambiguity, that of his political future. Breaking with the silence of recent weeks, the elected official delivered a speech with presidential overtones on Sunday October 6, giving a new turn to his political career, until then confined to the European Parliament. “In 2025, or in 2027, it will not be a replacement for macronism, nor left-wing populism which will prevent the far right from taking power, it will be us”, he proclaimed, eager to access responsibilities.

Raphaël Glucksmann has charted a new path, “Girondine”heiress of “Montesquieu liberalism” and located ebetween « Robespierre », a reference to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and « Jupiter » (Emmanuel Macron). A political project, “who must lead us to power”, will be tied up by June 2025, with a view to early legislative elections, in the event of further dissolution. “We had the right to be surprised in June, now we have to be ready”he insisted all weekend. The media diets are over, which made the coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI), Manuel Bompard, say in September that “Glucksman” had ” disappeared “. “Macron killed him by dissolving the National Assembly,” the “rebellious” congratulated himself.

A certain lack of flair

On Sunday, the MEP, who had remained silent to the point of worrying those close to him, set about distributing the scratches. “We see the bombs raining. An interior minister who uses the words of Victor Orban »he accused, in reference to speeches on immigration by Bruno Retailleau.

But the essayist, who hates being “in the comment”, and is reluctant to put his hands in the political mess, will have to do violence to himself. Symptomatic of a certain lack of flair, the MEP did not understand, for example, on the evening of the dissolution, that the left would immediately unite for the legislative elections. He also failed to have any influence in the negotiations with the Socialist Party (PS) during the distribution of constituencies, despite a good score in the European elections.

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