“His interviews where he hits on all the party leaders, it’s distressing”: at Place publique, Raphaël Glucksmann’s positions push a national referent to resign

The clap is clear. This Sunday, December 15, the national co-referent of Jeunes Place publique, Anaïta David, announced her resignation. In question: the leadership of Raphaël Glucksmann, which leaves little room for internal dialogue.

“I wanted to leave as soon as the negotiations around the New Popular Front and the lack of goodwill from Place publique to participate in them took place,” explains the woman who had been the number 1 of the young Place publique for 1 year. After three years at Place publique, Anaïta David finally decided to join Génération·sthe party founded in 2017 by Benoît Hamon.

Tensions an internal

Co-founded in 2018 by Raphaël Glucksmann, Place publique aimed to work for a real union of the left. It is also driven by this common ambition that the young woman explains having “joined Place publique upon arriving in France, at barely 18 years old”.

“But for several months, the directions taken by Place publique diverge from the initial promise, the union of the left. And I refuse to give it up,” she explains evasively in a post published on X.

Near LiberationAnaïta David explains: “I wanted to leave as soon as the negotiations around the NFP and the lack of goodwill of the movement to participate in it”. According to her, the movement's lack of “good will” is embodied by Glucksmann himself.

After the European elections and the victory of the far-right in France, if Place publique finally agreed to participate in the coalition of the New Popular Front, the orientations of the leaders of the movement tend rather towards disunity: “We are no longer in the decisions of the NFP, explains Anaïta David There are no internal consultations: the position of Place publique is that of Glucksmann. his interviews where he hits on all the party leaders, it's distressing. Everyone has somewhat forgotten that we were created to unite the left.”