{"id":467622,"date":"2026-10-12T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/12\/francia-raphael-glucksmann-vince-le-primarie-della-sinistra-socialdemocratica\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T09:26:34","slug":"france-raphael-glucksmann-wins-social-democratic-lefts-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/12\/france-raphael-glucksmann-wins-social-democratic-lefts-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"France: Rapha\u00ebl Glucksmann wins social-democratic left\u2019s primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The leader of the Place Publique party and MEP (S&D), Rapha\u00ebl Glucksmann<\/strong>, has won the social-democratic left\u2019s primary election in France. With 66.13 per cent of the votes<\/a>, he comfortably beat the secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure<\/strong> (14.48 per cent), yesterday (11 October). The other Socialist candidates, S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal<\/strong> (7.62 per cent) and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Guedj<\/strong> (5.83 per cent), did not secure more than ten per cent, and the same applies to the founder of the Republican and Socialist Left (GRS) party, Emmanuel Maurel<\/strong> (5.92 per cent). For the first time in its history, the PS will therefore not have a candidate standing in the presidential election<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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A staunch Europeanist, Glucksmann advocates a break with the radical left, which he sees as being led by Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon\u2019s La France Insoumise<\/strong>, currently in the running for the \u00c9lys\u00e9e. In his political manifesto, the MEP writes<\/a> \u201cthat France can once again become a great power and that, to achieve this, it must establish itself as the driving force behind a sovereign Europe, revitalise its democracy, rebuild its social model and fully embrace the ecological revolution.\u201d In recent years in the European Parliament, Glucksmann has therefore distinguished himself through his staunch defence of Ukraine \u2013 his grandfather\u2019s country of birth \u2013 and his condemnation of unfair Chinese competition and Beijing\u2019s repression of the Uyghur minority. From 2008 to 2012, he also served as an adviser to the then Georgian president, Mikhail Saakashvili<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

 France is a semi-presidential republic in which executive power is shared between the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister. The President is elected directly by the people and appoints the Prime Minister based on the election results. The President of the Republic is elected by direct universal suffrage in a two-round system. Therefore, an absolute majority of the votes is required to be elected in the first round. If none of the candidates secures this, the two candidates who received the most votes in the first round proceed to the run-off. The first round of the 2027 presidential elections is scheduled for 18 April, while the run-off is set for 2 May. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The leader of Place Publique far surpassed the Socialist Party, which in 2027 will not have a candidate running in the presidential elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":467600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26261,35819,28178,36194,27772],"class_list":["post-467622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-eliseo","tag-elections-french-en","tag-place-publique","tag-raphael-glucksmann-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467626,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467622\/revisions\/467626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}