Glucksmann accused of having “pissed” on Mélenchon and Royal of having done “belly dancing” in front of Macron

Comments by left-wing primary candidate Raphaël Glucksmann, taken from a video circulating on social networks, and in which he says "piss" on Jean-Luc Mélenchon and accuses Ségolène Royal of having "done belly dancing" in front of Emmanuel Macron, caused the two parties to react strongly on Saturday.

On the eve of the last televised debate of the primary candidates, two extracts of his remarks, intended to remain private, were broadcast by Le Media, an online support close to the radical left, in which Raphaël Glucksmann is alongside the leader of the socialist deputies Boris Vallaud and appears to be discussing with activists.

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Glucksmann’s team declined to comment.

Asked by AFP, Mr. Glucksmann's team did not wish to make comments on Saturday evening. In a first extract, the MEP debriefs the Medef debate at the end of August, in which he participated with six other presidential candidates, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen.

We hear him say that “on economic issues”, the two candidates “were mega on the hook”. “I saw Mélenchon with his eyes lost in this debate,” he insists.

“What happened behind?”, he continues. “Le Pen brought back (the subject of the) veil” into the political debate. “And he (Jean-Luc Mélenchon, editor’s note), he put the abaya back on. They reacted in symmetry. We’re pissing on them, we’re not going to get in there,” he gets angry.

“Immature remark”

Jean-Luc Mélenchon was surprised on X by this video where “R. Glucksmann claims he is “pissing on me”. Not long ago, he announced that he was going to “bend” me,” he remarks. “We see how he adopts the “method of nuance” that he recommends and the “refusal of the brutalization of the debate” that he proclaims,” he says.

In a second video, the MEP attacks his competitor in the left-wing primary, Ségolène Royal, accusing him of having done “belly dancing to Macron” in recent years while he has been “seven and a half years in the European Parliament”.

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In this same extract, Raphaël Glucksmann also criticizes the “so-called leftist” leadership of the PS, which was “on positions which initially were not anti-Macron” and “which today gives lessons”.