MEP to declare he is in the running for the highly-contested election next spring
Raphaël Glucksmann is expected to announce his candidacy for France’s presidential election next year, entering a field that is crowded even just within his left-wing spectrum.
Former essayist Glucksmann, 46, a European parliament deputy who leads the centre-left party Place Publique, is expected to use a prime time interview on TF1 television on Sunday to declare he is standing.
His move is expected to have the immediate consequence that his partner the journalist Lea Salame, a top news reader on rival public France 2 TV, will announce she is stepping aside to avoid any conflict of interest in the campaign.
Far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen scents her best ever chance of winning the Élysée but a host of candidates in the centrist camp of President Emmanuel Macron, who is not allowed to serve another term, as well as the left have announced they will be contenders.
