Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the head of the Socialist list, Raphaël Glucksmann, have affirmed their desire to bring together the left-wing parties after the European elections next June. According to polls, the socialist list would obtain 10% of the votes against 8 to 9% for that of France Insoumise.
The leader of France Insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the head of the socialist list Raphaël Glucksmann displayed their differences on Sunday on international issues, but affirmed their desire to bring together the left after the European elections of June 9. “If people on the left vote for us, there will be a union,” assured Jean-Luc Mélenchon on France 3, the day after the launch of his movement’s campaign which will be led by outgoing MEP Manon Aubry. “If they don’t vote for us, there will be no union,” he added.
“It’s obvious that there is a gulf that separates us”
These European elections are “the first round” of the 2027 presidential election, he said on Saturday, before recalling on Sunday that his candidacy was part of the “hypotheses”. This would be the fourth time that he has run for the Élysée. In dispersed order for the June 9 election, Insoumis, socialists, ecologists and communists are waging a battle for leadership on the left. “It is obvious that there is a gulf that separates us from rebellious France on the question of war in Europe,” recognized Raphaël Glucksmann at the same time on BFMTV.
“I think that this campaign will make it possible to decide the lines on the left on the question of the geopolitics of Europe, the relationship to dictatorships, the relationship to human rights, the relationship to violence,” he continued. “In 2027, I am for the left to come together, but it will not come together on the line of Jean-Luc Mélenchon,” he added.
The candidate of the Socialist Party and Public Place, the small party he founded, once again pleaded for a strengthening of military aid to Ukraine, when the rebels defended a ceasefire, negotiations and referendums in the regions disputed by Kiev and Moscow. “It is not the support for Ukraine that we are calling into question, but the French strategy of escalation,” explained Manon Aubry, France Inter/France Info/Le Monde.
Raphaël Glucksmann’s list at the top of the left
Opposing Raphaël Glucksmann, she reaffirmed the opposition of the Insoumis to Ukraine’s eventual accession to the EU. In various polls, the list of Jordan Bardella (RN) is credited with around 30% of voting intentions on June 9, that of the presidential camp, led by Valérie Hayer with around 18%. It is the list of Raphaël Glucksmann which is placed at the head of the left (10%), followed by the Ecologists of Marie Toussaint (9%) and Manon Aubry for LFI with 7 to 8%.
The divide is also very clear in the Middle East, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticizing Raphaël Glucksmann for not using the word “genocide” to describe the actions of the Israeli army in Gaza. “I don’t understand this position. Only this word allows us to characterize what is happening there,” he said.
“I use the term genocide with extreme parsimony and I am extremely careful about the way in which this term is used,” replied the head of the socialist list, recalling his work of several years “on the total extermination of the Tutsis of Rwanda, where they went to kill from infants to old people, in houses, in marshes and in churches”. After using the term “carnage” in Gaza, he called on Sunday for increased international pressure against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and called for the suspension of the association agreement between the European Union and Israel.
Source: Europe1
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