Raphaël Glucksmann

He announced his candidacy on 23 August 2026 and is a contender in the Socialist Party and Place Publique primary for the social-democratic nomination for the 2027 French presidential election.

Career

According to Wikipedia he studied at Sciences Po Paris (1999-2003) and worked as a documentary maker and journalist. He advised Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili from 2009 to 2012 and later took part in advice on Ukraine's Euromaidan. He founded Place Publique in 2018 and led a joint list with the Socialist Party in the 2019 European election, which won 6.2%. He was elected an MEP that year and led the list again in 2024, winning 13.8%. He sits on the foreign affairs committee and chairs the special committee on foreign interference.

Positions

Wikipedia describes him as a pro-European federalist and a supporter of Ukraine who favours climate action, stronger defence spending and a critical view of free-trade agreements. On announcing his candidacy on TF1, LCP reports, he said he wants to be the president of France's ecological transformation and to cut the energy, technological and industrial dependencies he sees binding the country. He says that if he wins there will be no agreement with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while he offers openings to the Greens, the Communists and François Hollande.

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Photo: Mathieu Delmestre, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)