All Saints Holidays in the eternal city. Raphaël Glucksmann, discreet since the dissolution and appointment of Michel Barnier in Matignon, continues to take field, one eye all the same on the calendar. The American election is approaching and the new geopolitical deal has not yet been acted. Although probable, Donald Trump’s accession to the White House is still fiction, President Joe Biden remains for a few days in office, and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris cultivates the hope of being elected after him. The MEP therefore takes advantage of the world stay, a short trip to the Olympic stadium in the Italian capital to see his heart club, AS Roma, confront (and beat) the Torino Football Club. Sweet memory of this life before, almost twenty years ago, when he had invaded the lawn alongside the other Roman supporters, his crowned team of the title of champion of Italy. In Rome in this fall 2024, that it is good to be anonymous, drowned in the mass of tifosiafter a year of intense media coverage. Finally … Three rows below, a French tourist recognizes this: “Ah but it’s Glucksmann! It’s not over these bullshit of the NFP and Mélenchon soon?” (sic). The football stadiums may erase the differences, they do not erase faces.
A discreet meeting with François Hollande
An eternity. At the beginning of 2025, finished the media scarcity which so much concerned the new members of public places. Donald Trump was elected, and fifty days of power will have been enough for the new tenant of the White House to upset the World Order, operating a remarkable rapprochement with Russia by Vladimir Putin. Raphaël Glucksmann is therefore on tour, from columns to sets, to give his gaze on the international situation. A second momentum Glucksmann? “History makes the plan of Com ‘,” smiles one of his friends. History also echoes the European campaign of the person concerned, who has continued to warn Europe against the reversal of the Americans’ foreign policy. It is Boris Vallaud, the president of the pink deputies, who requests him upstream to take a look at the speech he will deliver during the debate in the assembly on the situation in Ukraine. Or Patrick Kanner, the boss of the Socialist Senators, who congratulates him when he crosses him in early March at the annual evening of the Coordination Council of Armenian Armenians in France: “You got right before everyone!”
François Hollande is delighted to be able to discuss international news, theme often far from the debates of the Assembly. It discreetly welcomed the MEP in its offices, rue de Rivoli, on March 6 in the morning. They have so much to say to themselves on the subject: the host directly practiced Vladimir Putin, when the guest has long observed his military maneuvers, during his stays from Georgia and Ukraine. And too bad if Raphaël Glucksmann wants to remain at the right distance from the former President of the Republic … if he has a “mixed” vision of the Holland five -year period, the MEP appreciates the exchanges he maintains with the former head of state. To the point, perhaps soon, to fly away-and to appear-together in Germany, at the invitation of the former president of the European Parliament, the social democrat Martin Schulz.
As often lately, the convergence of sight with the PS is almost total, even if, with covered words, Olivier Faure and his lieutenants sometimes find him a little too alarmist. Fabien Roussel, the national secretary of the PCF, judges his speech downright “dangerous”, the rebellious patriarch Jean-Luc Mélenchon describes him as “going war”. In short, Raphaël Glucksmann embodies this geopolitical cleavage old as the left. And he crystallizes: at Place Public, we welcome this regained centrality. “In a moment of historical crisis such as this one, geopolitics governs politics,” said Saïd Benmouffok, coordinator of the Parisian branch of the party.
“I am a boho but not a boho who loves the rich!”
The problem of a reputation is that it precedes you. For its detractors, its media resurgence is analyzed in terms of its past discretion. “He is absent from national crises, but present for international crises: so I would deduce that he would make an excellent Minister of Foreign Affairs,” mocks a party leader on the left. In hollow, the reproach of disconnection resurfaces. “I am a boho, but not a boho who loves the rich …”, he blown to a friend, to whom he testified to his taste to campaign to meet the French. His desired ascent is nonetheless steeped in contradictory injunctions. His supporters are aware of the paradox: “He returns to the center of the game because his analysis was right. But this point, he had already taken it before”, admits Aurélien Rousseau, deputy public place.
In private, Raphaël Glucksmann consults his family, tries to find the argument to “show that the current crisis is not just a case of foreign policy”. “What Vincent Bolloré attacks via his media is the same thing that Putin attacks in our democracies, continues Aurélien Rousseau. The fight that Raphaël in Brussels can be embodied in many interior policies.” But who remembers that at the time of discussions on the budget, Raphaël Glucksmann and his family were also invited to negotiate by ministers Eric Lombard and Catherine Vautrin?
His friends sometimes wait for him to come out of his comfort zone. The moment is well found. On March 15 and 16, Raphaël Glucksmann and public square, 10,000 members claimed, will be no exception to the multitude of congresses, even if the suspense is thin – he will be renewed at the head of his training in pairs with the MEP Aurore Lalucq. “The challenge is to constitute a political force capable of conquering power”, ignites Said Benmouffok. This weekend, no debauchery, or even curious well-known faces: the party, after discussion, decided not to invite external officials. “The scoping effect of rallies is likely to tarnish our positioning,” he worries about his own. On the other hand, he would appreciate that the Socialist Party, entangled in its own congress, remains within its perimeter, and that the opponents of Olivier Faure cease to instrumentalize it. Promises to give birth to his project, a “story!” Next June. Games and device alliances, he will see later.
In short, Raphaël Glucksmann is in his tunnel. “I feel he wants to go to the end,” blows one of his friends. Whatever the plantation of Narcissus on both sides of the left, and the plethora of calls for a joint candidacy. Since the 2022 presidential election, he has learned to be wary of the ability of his camp to tear himself off for months about a process of designation. Then comes back an old discussion with an rebellious. “You remember the start of the film Gladiator ? We are the Roman Empire, you, the Germanic tribes. You will spend all your time discussing between you. “The advice of old wise men are sometimes precious. This one is signed Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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