Glucksmann is the novelty of the French left but does not want to take up Macron's electoral challenge to defeat Le Pen

Raphael Glucksman, the forty-year-old son of the famous philosopher André and founder of the progressive group Place publique, is the novelty of the French left exiting the European elections which were overwhelmingly won by the couple's far right Le Pen-Bardella. By joining the Socialist Party, which he helped to revive from the ashes, collected a very honorable 14%. But faced with the President's poker move Emmanuel Macron, who disrupted the games by dissolving the national Parliament and calling early political elections for June 30 in the first round and for July 7 in the second, Glucksmann seems to have lost his bearings. Instead of taking up the challenge by aiming for the unity of all the forces of the centre-left to rout the far right in the second round, it took it out on Macron, who did not spare criticism, often ungenerous and prejudicial, throughout the entire electoral campaign as if the President was not the most ardent pro-European that the Old Continent can offer today and the true antagonist of Le Pen's right. “Voting is a gamble. Macron's is a challenge,” commented Glucksmann angrily. But when you lose the first hand, what are you supposed to do other than flip the table? Why doesn't Glucksmann think about the second round of politics and uniting a republican front that goes from the Macronians to the socialists and the moderate and progressive forces that don't want to end up in the hands of a far-right government? If she tries, the path of Le Pen, who does not have many alliances at hand, will be uphill. Otherwise it will be useless to blame Macron if, even in the face of the emergency, the French left is capable of uniting and for Gluksmann it will be a defeat that cannot be blamed on others.