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Raphaël Glucksmann, May 6, 2019, on RFI. RFI

A week and a half from the Europeans, the hour is serious for the Socialists. Their joint list with Public Place, led by essayist Raphael Glucksmann, still does not take off. Worse, in some opinion surveys, it falls below the 5% mark, synonymous with MEPs. Several party elephants - except François Hollande, at least for now - have decided to join the dance to come to the rescue of Raphael Glucksmann.

" It was supposed to be the savior of the PS and finally, it is the elephants who will save Mowgli, " quipped a socialist tenor. Anne Hidalgo appeared alongside Raphaël Glucksmann last Sunday. This Wednesday night, Christiane Taubira will hold a meeting with him. Thursday, it will be the turn of Bernard Cazeneuve, then Martine Aubry and perhaps even Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.

And too bad if the implication in the campaign of these figures of the left blurs the message of renewal carried by the essayist . " There, what we seek is to convince the socialist electorate ," analyzes a heavy weight of the party.

There is indeed danger in the house, the risk of having no more elected to the European Parliament and the prospect of a new debacle next year in the municipal. This is what made the last reticence of those who refused to defend the messy campaign of a personality outside the PS.

► See also: Europeans: the campaign is launched for the duo Glucksmann and Faure

Yet some old barons still resist. In a letter to Olivier Faure, 23 socialist ministers use pretexts by Raphael Glucksmann about Francois Miterrand and Rwanda to ask him to disavow his head of the list. Among them, Élisabeth Guigou who announced Wednesday to join the camp of Marcheurs.

► See also: European elections: the official campaign