Famous protest against the French presidential candidate

Glucksmann, who was elected as the presidential candidate of the Social Democrats by receiving 66 percent of the votes in the primary election, celebrated his victory in a bar in the capital Paris in the evening.

Glucksmann was covered in flour when flour was thrown at him while he was getting into a taxi to leave the area.

Images of those moments were reflected in the national press and social media.

According to the news of the French BFMTV channel, a person who was there during the incident stated that Glucksmann would receive only 2 percent of the votes in the presidential elections.

It is not known whether this person is the person who covered Glucksmann in flour.

French Government Spokesperson Maud Bregeon reacted to the throwing of flour at Glucksmann and stated that no violence, even symbolic, is unacceptable in public debates.

Stating that verbal violence was followed by physical violence, Bregeon argued that the leftist Unyielding France (LFI) Party was pursuing a strategy of turning everything into conflict.

Pre-selection process

The primary election to determine the name that will represent the social democrats in next year's presidential election in France ended yesterday.

In the 3-day primary election held online, Glucksmann became the presidential candidate of the social democrats by receiving 66 percent of the votes.

In the election, in which approximately 120 thousand people, consisting of members of social democratic parties, voted, Glucksmann competed with Socialist Party (PS) Secretary General Olivier Faure, PS Deputy Jerome Guedj, Socialist and Republican Left Party founder Emmanuel Maurel, and the socialists' presidential candidate in the 2007 election, Segolene Royal.

In France, where the far right increased its votes in the last elections, Glucksmann does not favor the centre-leftists forming an alliance with the far left in the presidential election.

Glucksmann also differs from socialists and extreme leftists in his approach to the Palestine issue. Avoiding describing what happened in Gaza as "genocide", Glucksmann draws attention to the fight against anti-Semitism in France.