The head of the PS-Place Publique list Raphaël Glucksmann said on Sunday he was “proud” of his third place in the European elections, without having “the soul to celebrate” due to the score of the far-right lists “Today , the extreme right represents 40% in France”, he declared to his supporters, referring to “a wave which is deeply shaking our democracies”. “We will stand up to them in Europe,” he insisted in his speech at his campaign HQ in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
“We, the extreme right, do not play with it at every election, we fight it day after day”
With a score of around 14% of the votes cast according to initial estimates, the essayist doubles his 2019 result and ranks third in the European elections in France, hot on the heels of the list of the presidential majority led by Valérie Hayer . “We, the extreme right, do not play with it at every election, we fight it day after day,” insisted the MEP. “We will stand up to them, we will stand up to them in Europe and we will stand up to them in France. With us, there will be no procrastination,” he declared.
With this score, “what we are going to bring about is a new political space”, judged the new strong man of the left, defining it as “a new way of doing politics based on clarity and sincerity, on the refusal of excesses, the refusal of slander, the refusal of violence”. “Democracy is our dearest good and democracy weakens and erodes when we do not cultivate it, when we do not defend it, when we do not make it live,” said Raphaël Glucksmann.