Raphaël Glucksmann, on the Presidential Election of 2027: "I Will Not Take Part in a Primary Election"

Replying to the proposal made in "Libé" by François Ruffin, the Member of the European Parliament justifies this choice in an interview with the «World» on Friday 23 May, explaining that he does not want a «common candidature with Jean-Luc Mélenchon».

The MEP explains, in an interview with the "World", that the left is now composed of a pole around Unsuspected France and another which formed during the Europeans and which he intends to structure around a project open to socialists and ecologists.

Raphaël Glucksmann announced Friday, May 23rd that he "will not participate in a primary" on the left, which he judges "mortiferous". The leader of the Place public party refuses any joint candidacy with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

"I will not participate in a device thing that produces a soft synthesis, because it will not work," explains the leader of the Place publique party, effectively rejecting the calls of François Ruffin and Marine Tondelier to a primary.

Raphaël Glucksmann, Member of the European Parliament and founder of Place publique, Paris, 22 May 2025. JULIEN DANIEL/MYOP FOR "THE WORLD" While left-wing leaders and ecologists plead for the organisation of a primary in order to nominate a common candidate for the 2027 presidential election, Euro MP Raphaël Glucksmann, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of La France insoumise (LFI), refuses this strategy. The founder of Place publique, who ar…