DIRECT. Raphaël Glucksmann: the MEP holds his first big meeting ahead of the 2027 presidential election

“We will come together to win in 2027,” assures Raphaël Glucksmann. His left, “it will come together beyond doubts, beyond differences and it will win in 2027.”

“The French will not elect one of Emmanuel Macron’s former prime ministers,” he assures. Gabriel Attal and Édouard Philippe pretend not to know the president who made them (…) they can promise to change everything when they have been in charge for ten years.”

For him, “the French do not want Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the Élysée either”. And to conclude: “It is up to our left, the one which unites instead of brutalizing, which repairs instead of breaking (…) to propose an alternative to prevent Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen from taking power.”

“Meritocracy does not exist when inheritance dominates,” summarizes Raphaël Glucksmann, who wants to fight against privilege. “We have once again become a society of rentiers and heirs, our mission will be to rebuild a Republic of workers,” he advocates.

For this, he says he wants an “improvement in working conditions and an increase in wages”, introduced in parallel with the “taxation of super-inheritances and the highest assets.”

During his speech, Raphaël Glusckmann attacked the conspiracy sphere, in passing singling out the National Rally on this subject.

“The nation of Pasteur and Marie Curie cannot become a country of anti-vax influencers or conspiracy theorists,” says the MEP.

“Our left will always be on the side of Science. We will never give in to the demagogic temptation of questioning scientists. And if the RN had been in power during the Covid crisis, what would have happened? We would have been shot with the Russian Sputnik vaccine and hydroxychloroquine.”

“We cannot entrust the nation to these people,” he insists, before committing: “We will make up for our investment deficit in research in five years, that is my commitment.”

“The Republic in our eyes is the public school,” insists Raphaël Glucksmann, who assures that “saving the public school will be [s]a priority”, to fight in particular “against growing social inequalities”.

He details: “Our left will reconnect with an ambitious cultural policy, protect creative freedom, defend the public audiovisual service and fight against the hyper-concentration of the media in the hands of a few billionaires.”

Raphaël Glucksmann also wants to establish “compulsory and universal civic service so that young French people meet again and learn to serve the common good”, but also relaunch “summer camps so that our children discover collective life.”

For him, who wants to “break down its invisible walls which fracture the country”, “there is no longer a Republic when the French no longer know each other, when they no longer speak to each other, when they no longer listen to each other.”

“We will not let France become a colony of Silicon Valley and the Chinese Communist Party,” says Raphaël Glucksmann, referring to his third priority, that of giving France back its technological freedom.

“We will engage in a fierce struggle (…) against this new global oligarchy which concentrates in the hands of some of the fortunes and powers unprecedented in human history,” adds the MEP, who points to several “enemies”: “Elon Musk (SpaceX, X), Sam Altman (OpenAI), and Zhang Yiming (TikTok).”

These enemies have, according to him, “made our lives, our personal data, our anger, our anxieties, our desires, our most intimate experiences, and our most public commitments, they make our lives the raw material of [leur] “unlimited expansion” and “mess up the brains of our children and our leaders let it happen”.

Raphaël Glucksmann discusses the accusations of certain commentators who qualify him as “the new Macron”. On this subject, the MEP tackles the record of the current President of the Republic, in ecological matters.

“I always knew that Emmanuel Macron had understood nothing about ecology, that he was going to do nothing other than empty speeches with measuring sticks and communication shots and that we were going to lose ten precious years”, tackles the potential candidate, who promises that “we will not lose another one.”

He wants to make ecology his “priority”: “for the climate yes, but also for our freedom, for the independence of France and the purchasing power of the French.” And to summarize: “we will make the French Republic an ecological Republic, a free Republic.”

Raphaël Glucksmann affirms that the next French president must “give back to France its freedom and its sovereignty”.

In front of his audience, who do not hesitate to chant “Raphaël president”, he assures that the next tenant of the Élysée “will have to prepare the country for the threat of a war on the soil of the European Union and untie the three energy, industrial and technological leashes which enclose the necks of the French and enslave France.”

For him, the next presidential election “will be unlike any other”, particularly because of attempts at Russian interference. But the potential candidate reaffirms his “unshakeable confidence in the French.”

Raphaël Glucksmann begins his speech with a tribute to Lyhanna, an 11-year-old schoolgirl found dead last Thursday June 4.

“Sexual violence against children and women are not news items, they are political, social facts, which the government has never confronted as it should have”, launches the MEP from the platform, on which we can read “Win ​​in 2027”.

The president of the Place publique party advances towards the platform after speeches by several civil personalities, including Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, survivor of the Rwandan genocide.

The MEP, who has left himself three months to announce or not his candidacy for the presidential election, must convince his camp and rally support for his cause during this meeting.

Raphaël Glucksmann’s first meeting for the 2027 presidential election, he who gave himself three months to declare himself, or not, a candidate, began at the Docks d’Aubervilliers. The Place publique party claims 4,000 participants.

The MEP invited several civilian personalities to speak in the introduction to his speech, including Laurence Tubiana, director of the European Climate Foundation, economist and diplomat, Cyrille Amoursky, war reporter in Ukraine, Annick Kayitesi-Jozan, survivor of the Rwandan genocide and Raphaël Rodriguez, research director at CNRS.

If Raphaël Glucksmann is delighted on the Place publique website to be surrounded by “inspiring personalities” during his meeting in Aubervilliers, some absentees however stand out.

Missing will be, in particular, François Hollande, former President of the Republic, Olivier Faure, boss of the PS, Bernard Cazeneuve, potential presidential candidate, Marine Tondelier, leader of the ecologists or Boris Vallaud, president of the PS group in the National Assembly.

At the Docks de Paris, in Aubervilliers, 2,000 people are expected at Raphaël Glucksmann’s meeting, including several figures from the left.

Announced in particular are Yannick Jadot, environmental senator, Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie region, but also Laurence Rossignol, PS senator or Michaël Delafosse, the mayor of Montpellier.

Under pressure, the leader of Place publique, who plans to bring together 2,000 supporters in Aubervilliers, wants to create a dynamic around him and convince his camp before formalizing his candidacy for the presidential election.

Positioned on a social democratic, pro-European and anti-LFI line, Raphaël Glucksmann has set himself until September to convince in particular the Socialist Party, which he needs to campaign and which he is in disagreement with the First Secretary, Olivier Faure.

The MEP is among the favorites on the social democratic spectrum, with around 12% of voting intentions.

Hello and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Raphaël Glucksmann meeting. The president of Place publique, who gave himself three months to convince and declare himself in the presidential election, is playing big for his first meeting this Saturday, June 13 at the Docks de Paris, in Aubervilliers.

The social democrat aims to rally the PS, resist pressure from LFI and trigger a dynamic around him.