Raphael Glucksmann wins France’s social democratic left primary decisively with over 66% of the vote

Raphael Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament and leader of the Place Publique party, has been selected as the candidate of the social democratic left for France’s presidential election. He received more than 66% of the vote in the first round of the primary.

According to the organizers, 120,787 voters took part in the process. Glucksmann finished well ahead of his rivals, including Olivier Faure, leader of the Socialist Party, who secured 14% of the vote.

Ségolène Royal, Jérôme Goetz and Emmanuel Morel, the other three candidates, each received less than 10%. With this result, Glucksmann secured the support of a majority of voters in the preliminary process to select the social democratic left’s candidate for the French presidential race.