🔴 Raphaël Glucksmann wins French left-wing primary with 66% of vote

Raphaël ​Glucksmann, an EU lawmaker, won France's centre-left's presidential primary on Sunday, positioning himself as the left's main alternative to hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Glucksmann, 46, who leads the ​Place Publique ‌movement, won the primary in a first round of ⁠voting, securing an outright majority with 66% of the vote. "I am the candidate who stands for ‌a break with Macronism, the candidate who stands for a break ⁠with Jean-Luc Melenchon’s hegemony over the French left, the candidate who can defeat our long-standing enemy – the far right," he told party ​activists after the vote. A profile of Raphaël Glucksmann, the man who wants to be French President To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Spotlight AFP - ROMAIN PERROCHEAU 13:49 Glucksmann now faces the task of uniting ‌a fractured left in a presidential campaign increasingly shaped by the far right. More than 120,000 people turned out for the vote, far fewer than in the ‌past – 2.8 million...