Primary of the left: leak of private remarks of Raphaël Glucksmann and confidences of François Hollande

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

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 piss on them, we’re not going to get in there,” he gets angry.

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

Both parties reacted strongly. 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.

For her part, Ségolène Royal deplored on

“I’m going to be elected tonight. You’re going to find out at 8 p.m., but I’m warning you,” François Hollande confided to his father a few minutes before the official announcement of his victory in the presidential election in 2012. “I pity you all the same!”, immediately blurted out Georges Hollande, who was from a completely different political side “to the right of the right”. From this point of view he had made “a good prophecy”, laughs the former President of the Republic. For him, “acting was not in vain, but painful.”

For 52 minutes, the former head of state answers questions from Vincent Trémolet de Villers, on the new Empreintes Youtube channel. He returns to the driving forces behind his political ambition and what built him as a man. The country of his childhood? “We lived in Rouen, in my father’s medical office. The bed in which I lay in the evening was the bed on which he operated on his patients,” recalls François Hollande, before adding with amusement: “When he had time, he operated on me and my brother to get the hang of it…”.