“The bet, which seemed completely absurd a few weeks ago, becomes possible. No one says it’s a crazy story anymore! » enthuses this socialist executive. The head of the list of the PS and Place publique in the European elections, Raphaël Glucksmann, could outperform the Macronist candidate Valérie Hayer on the evening of June 9. A hypothesis no longer so far-fetched in view of its survey dynamics. After reaching 13% for the first time on Saturday, in our latest Ipsos-Le Parisien-Radio France survey, three points behind the Renaissance candidate, a Harris Interactive poll for Challenge, RTL and M 6 places him this week at 14%, just two points behind its competitor. Enough to fuel the dream of intersecting curves in his camp.
“We are winning the first challenge of rebalancing the balance of power on the left. But beating the Macronists would be a good kick in the anthill,” says a close friend of the PS boss, Olivier Faure. “It would be an earthquake in French political life,” adds a campaign strategist. Officially, Glucksmann refuses to set a numerical objective or electoral target to canvass. Guest of the media Politico on Wednesday evening, he explained that he was addressing voters of the pro-European left “caught in a vice (…) in this universe between Macron and Mélenchon” and that he intended to “make them breathe” again. “How far apart can we spread the walls?” I don’t know,” he confided. The essayist also said he was convinced of being able to “attract people who made very different choices in previous elections” around his project.