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Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the record for the PS and Place publique, launched into the European battle on Sunday with a big assembly close to Toulouse, to “wake up Europe”, denouncing “indolence” and the “focus of 'self-centeredness and indifference' in direction of the state of affairs in Ukraine.
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In entrance of greater than 2,500 individuals gathered in an overheated room in Tournefeuille (Haute-Garonne), within the coronary heart of Occitanie, a land of the left, the MEP requested himself: “are we witnessing the disintegration of democracies Europeans or on the contrary when they wake up?”
Entering the stage on the title of the rapper Eminem “Lose yourself”, the 44-year-old essayist assured that he might “bring another Europe to emerge, fairer, more dignified”, repeatedly attacking the macronie, “leaders without a backbone “, “sleepwalkers”.
“We are not made of the same crumbly wood as that of the president and his cronies, we do not change our speech depending on the audience,” he criticized specifically. “We, the extreme right, do not flatter it, we fight it,” reiterated Raphaël Glucksmann, who intends to intrude within the match between Renaissance and the RN.
Campaigning quietly for a number of months, the founding father of the small Place publique celebration, who satisfied slightly greater than 6% of voters within the 2019 European elections, is at the moment credited with 9 to 13%: he’s at the moment within the lead from the left, in third place behind the top of the National Rally record, Jordan Bardella, and that of the bulk Valérie Hayer.
“I smell something that has the taste of hope, the smell and flavor of beginnings, something that resembles spring,” he advised the gang, chanting “we are going to win” and “ tax the wealthy”, one of the measures he defends at European level.
Presenting himself “because the candidate of a European social democracy rid of all types of weak point and compromise”, Raphaël Glucksmann became bitter about the situation in Ukraine: “I can't stand this indolence” of the elites French and European, “of this focus of laziness and lightness, of egocentrism and indifference”.
“Attacked from all sides”
He additionally criticized LFI and the communists who accuse him of being “a warmonger”. “We must answer them that the only path to peace is precisely firmness and that each capitulation, each setback brings the war closer to home.”
In this election, the essayist needs to attempt to get better the disenchanted voters of Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) and get forward of Valérie Hayer (Renaissance).
A superb rating would “reshuffle the cards for the presidential election” and the following union that the PS is asking for after the failure of the Nupes (New ecological and social widespread union) born in May 2022 after an settlement between the left-wing events, sums up a socialist.
The stakes are additionally excessive within the European Parliament, the place the European Socialist Party is 33 seats away from overturning the bulk, at the moment held by the EPP (proper), Olivier Faure recurrently reminds us.
Becoming the primary group would enable them to have a preponderant weight within the alternative of the following president of the Commission, a place occupied at this time by Ursula von der Leyen (PPE), candidate for a second time period.
Olivier Faure assured slightly earlier within the discussion board that he had “never regretted the choice of 2019” to designate him head of the record. “You stood your ground every time the essential was at stake”, citing the rights of the Uighurs (Muslim minority that Beijing is accused of persecuting), Russian interference, help for the Ukrainian resistance or the rights of flat employees. -digital varieties.
“You will be attacked from all sides, nothing will be spared, we will search your past, your present, we will blame you even your name, but we will be there!”, added the boss of the socialists.
Criticized in 2019 by a part of the PS, who took a dim view of a non-socialist head of the record, Raphaël Glucksmann is now virtually unanimously supported by the pink celebration. Including amongst former rebels who admire his positions breaking with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, significantly on China, the Ukrainian query or European protection.
“It is not those who want to oppose, to create division, but those who want to reconcile, who will win,” assured Carole Delga, the president of Occitanie, identified for her anti-LFI positions.
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