Teddy Riner presidential candidate: “Neither from the right nor from the left, that’s what we saw for 10 years”, quips Raphaël Glucksmann

“Neither right nor left, that’s what we’ve seen for 10 years,” reacts Raphaël Glucksmann, PS/Place Publique presidential candidate, on the subject of Teddy Riner’s candidacy for the Elysée. Guest of the special day “Our Public Services”, Thursday November 12, on franceinfo, Raphaël Glucksmann believes that this neither right nor left has led “to both injustice and chaos”. “I think it is important, in fact, to know how to position oneself politically in order to be able to accept democratic divisions, that is what democratic public life is all about,” he concludes.

Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner, 37, announced in a video on Monday that he was a presidential candidate. He claims to be neither right nor left. On

Asked also about the concerns of the Insoumis candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon about the rearmament of Germany, Raphaël Glucksmann quipped: Jean-Luc Mélenchon "thinks that France's main adversary is Germany, not Putin's Russia. But in what century does he live? Germany, our main partner, that's what worries him, the rearmament of Germany", continued the PS/Place publique candidate. “And at the same time he is opposed to European defense, and he wants to leave NATO,” he concluded.

On Wednesday, on the occasion of the November 11 commemorations, Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared: “I do not accept the idea that anyone in Europe wants to build the largest conventional army.”