Glucksmann left the country on May 1: the Social Democratic candidate “lied” by blaming LFI activists, according to Matilde Pano

The May 1 clashes are causing turmoil on the left. Suspended from the Labor Day demonstration in Saint-Etienne, the head of the PS-Place public list for the European elections, Raphaël Glucksmann, “lied” by accusing activists of La France Insoumise, the head of LFI deputies, Mathilde Pano, assured on Thursday.

“Raphael Glucksmann lied,” she said on Franceinfo, condemning her opponent’s “political maneuver” after “an incident that he himself drew attention to in order to blame the rebels.”

The Social Democratic candidate, who was violently attacked by several dozen demonstrators on Wednesday, was chased out of a procession in Saint-Etienne under spray paint and spray cans amid cries of “Glucksmann, get out of there.” The interested party immediately pointed a finger at the “freaks” from LFI. Except that “those who argued this were young communists” from the Loire, noted Mathilde Panot, suggesting that we should “ask (PCF head) Fabien Roussel what he thinks about this.”

The testimony of a local rebel with an LFI flag on his shoulder, explaining that he “was one of those who expelled” Raphael Glucksmann, did not make Mathilde Panot hesitate. “I don’t know this activist,” she responded, before emphasizing that “the entire leadership of the movement did not approve” of what happened in Saint-Etienne.

Starting with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who deplored the action’s “distraction for the media” and the “victim role” for the PS-Place publique candidate, who is ahead in the polls of other left-wing lists, especially the rebellious Manon. Aubrey.

Despite these perceived antagonisms, “it is not we who decided to divide,” Pano added, assuring that he had “until the last moment tried to draw up a single list” between the former Nupe allies, which, according to today’s opinion, would correspond to being “the leading political force in the country “

Having left in disjointed order, the four left-wing candidates (Raphaël Glucksmann, Manon Aubry, environmentalist Marie Toussaint and communist Léon Deffontaine) will meet on Thursday at 20:00 for a debate organized by the newspaper Libération, as well as the Macronist Clément. Beaune and Republican Francois-Xavier Bellamy.