The left shows, through its inability to come together for the European elections, "a nightclub bouncer mentality," lamented Sunday the head of Public Place / PS list Raphael Glucksmann by calling again to the union.
The essayist also confirmed, in the program BFM Politique in partnership with Le Parisien , that the MEPs on his list will sit, if they are elected, "within the social-democratic group" (S & D), which is currently the second force of the European Parliament behind the EPP conservatives. "The only way to build a majority is to join the social democratic group in Parliament," he said.
A left that advances in dispersed order
In France, the left advance in very scattered order towards the polls of May 26 with in particular three lists with very close programs around the concept of the social-ecology: that led by Raphael Glucksmann, that of the ecologists of EELV and that of Générations cornaqué by Benoît Hamon. In the polls, EELV (around 8 to 9%) is ahead of Place Publique / PS (around 6%) and Generations (around 3%). To obtain elected representatives, a list must receive at least 5% of the votes.
Glucksmann evokes "ego" and "logics of chapels"
"There are logics of chapels, patriotisms of devices, ego also that makes the gathering almost impossible.Left, there is a mentality of bouncer of nightclub: I protect my space, as small as it is ", regretted Raphael Glucksmann. "I worked for four months gathering them around a table so that there was only one political offer," he added. In vain. But today, alarmed Raphael Glucksmann, "the left can disappear" and "it's a disaster".
Benoît Hamon deplores the lack of clarity on the Glucksmann project
This is why the door of the essayist "remains open" and he will continue to work "so that there is this gathering". Knowing that, according to him, the meeting of social and ecology "is the only way to make the left exist" as an alternative to the "nationalism" of a Marine Le Pen and the "liberalism" of an Emmanuel Macron. "I now consider that Raphael Glucksmann (...) provides no guarantee of clarity on what he will do," replied Benoît Hamon in the Grand Jury RTL / LCI / Le Figaro, adding: "we do not can not be anti-liberal in Paris and liberal in the European Parliament. "