“Everyone hates the PS!” : “I don’t care”, responds Glucksmann to the demonstrators “hostile” to his presence at the Parisian demonstration

“If there are political activists who are hostile to our presence, I don't care, I don't care”: Raphaël Glucksmann brushed aside the hostile whistles and slogans upon his arrival Thursday in the Parisian demonstration against the high cost of living. The social democratic presidential candidate had to leave the procession after being blocked for 45 minutes at its starting point, Place de la République.

The left-wing candidate was greeted by cries of “no, Glucksmann is not a comrade”, “everyone hates the PS”, but also by “Raphaël president” and some applause. He assured that he wanted to “put workers back at the heart of the social contract”.

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“I want there to be a job in France that allows you to live with dignity”

Since the start of his campaign, the man who won the social democratic primary has struggled to attend demonstrations, where he is regularly attacked by radical left activists, and denounces “harassment” from La France insoumise. “Today is workers’ day. This is not the day for political activists who are for another candidate and who seek to prevent us from expressing ourselves,” he told the press on Thursday in the procession, accompanied by several socialist executives.

“I want there to be a job in France that allows you to live with dignity. And that is the heart of the project,” he added. “My role today is to be in support of the inter-union, it is to be in support of the demands of the workers, it is to be in support of these French workers who are no longer able to make ends meet and to demand a decent salary, an increase in the minimum wage,” insisted the candidate.

He added that he wanted to represent “the democratic rupture, the realistic rupture, the rupture which does not fracture the country”. “We are going to reconcile the French, we are going to repair public services, we are going to do, if you like, the opposite of what has happened for 10 years: we are going to redistribute, but not from the poor to the rich, as has happened for 10 years, but in reverse.”