Glucksmann Wins Centre-Left Ticket for France’s Presidential Election
Glucksmann won with 66.17% of the vote, giving him the center-left nomination and leaving Socialist Party chief Olivier Faure weakened.
- On Sunday, European lawmaker Raphael Glucksmann won France's center-left presidential primary, securing an outright majority with 66% of the vote in the first round.
- More than 120,000 people participated in the primary, far fewer than the 2.8 million who voted in the 2011 Socialist Party primary won by Francois Hollande, reflecting a fractured left.
- Glucksmann's victory deals a blow to Socialist Party head Olivier Faure, who secured only 14.5% while favoring alliances with Jean-Luc Melenchon's France Unbowed party.
- "I am the candidate who stands for a break with Macronism," Glucksmann told activists, pledging to oppose any alliance with Jean-Luc Melenchon's hegemony over the left.
- Opinion polls suggest Glucksmann could reach a May 2 runoff, though projections show he would likely lose to far-right frontrunner Marine Le Pen.
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Powered by his victory, the PS candidate faces a huge challenge: to impose himself in his camp, convince the ecologists, manage Holland and delight the useful vote in Mélenchon.
On the weekend the French Social Democrats chose their candidate for the Elysée, through primary: it will be the MEP Raphaël Glucksmann. While the leader of the far-right Marine Le Pen, who travels serenely in polls over 30 percent, has already booked a seat at the ballot, in the center-left area, counted Le monde yesterday, there are at the moment eleven candidates in the field. A fragmentation that, if it does not recompose soon, risks only fa…
Raphaël Glucksmann was elected on Sunday as the Social Democrats' candidate for the French presidential elections, to be held on April 24 next year. The MEP from the Place Publique party received more than 66 percent of the vote in the first round of the primaries, in which 120,787 voters participated.
The 46-year-old MEP Raphaël Glucksmann will be the candidate of Social Democracy for the presidential elections in France, scheduled for next year, after having won today's primary by a large majority.
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