Raphaël Glucksmann gives the PS another choice than the “unitary left” main | EUROtoday

The main is with out him. But the final rating of the Socialist Party (PS) in a nationwide election – the European elections (13.8%) – was with him. Aware of this dilemma among the many socialists, Raphaël Glucksmann desires to persuade them to desert the “unitary left” main for a resolutely social-democratic platform.

This weekend, the first mission of the “unitarians”, united round Olivier Faure (PS), Marine Tondelier (Les Ecologistes) and former “rebellious” Clémentine Autain (L’après) and François Ruffin (Debout!) below the title “Popular Front 2027”, took form with a poll introduced for October 11, 2026. And the organizers proceed to succeed in out to the 2 left-wing candidates within the lead within the polls, who categorically refuse to take part on this nomination course of: Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Raphaël Glucksmann. In useless.

Monday on BFM-TV, the founding father of Place publique, credited with round 13% of voting intentions, reiterated his refusal to take part in a course of which, in accordance with him, “is a desire not to choose between the two poles that exist on the left” : social democracy and the unconventional left. He known as his “socialist partners” to construct a “common platform”. Not sufficient to persuade the management of the pink occasion.

The PS divided on participation within the main

During a press convention Monday morning, the secretary basic of the PS, Pierre Jouvet, known as for constructing “a thread of coherence for the French” and estimated that in 2027 the PS ought to seem earlier than the voters with the identical left-wing companions – notably the Ecologists – as for the municipal elections in March. “In the end, we have an obligation, it is to go all together, otherwise we will be spectators of this presidential election”hammered the fitting arm of Olivier Faure, whereas the supporters of the first hope that it’s going to create a dynamic permitting its winner to learn from the “useful vote” left.

” For [Raphaël] Glucksmann, the intuition to do without the primary, I can understand it, but he must establish something with the French”notes for his part a close friend of the boss of the PS deputies, Boris Vallaud, whose wing is pivotal in making or breaking a majority in the PS. Because the PS is divided on the question of participation in the primary. This weekend, Olivier Faure recalled that, in accordance with its internal rules, the PS, the only left to have led the country, would only formally engage in the primary process after a vote by activists.

The internal opponents of the first secretary, including the mayor of Rouen, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, and the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, are not in favor of this primary, fearing that the vote of left-wing unitary activists will not benefit a socialist.

Carole Delga, who recently judged in The Point that Raphaël Glucksmann was “ready for 2027”reacted on Saturday by calling for an end to “small device transactions”. “The project is the prerequisite for any credible, solid and serious union. Then the time will come to know who will wear it in a large gathering”she recalled.

Former President François Hollande, to whom his adversaries attribute Elysee ambitions for 2027, also leans towards a federation of the reformist left ranging from the PS to Raphaël Glucksmann, Bernard Cazeneuve and Yannick Jadot.