The "non-melenchonist left" meets around Raphaël Glucksmann

They came, they were all there. For the first meeting of Place public, the movement "Citizen", launched by the essayist Raphael Glucksmann and the economist Thomas Porcher, the "non-melenchonist left" had met at Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) Thursday, November 15 evening. In the audience, we could meet Guillaume Balas (MEP Génération.s, the movement of Benoît Hamon); the former communist mayor of Saint-Denis Patrick Braouezec; Stéphane Troussel, president (PS) of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis; the former Socialist Minister of Ecology; Julien Bayou, declared candidate of Europe Ecology Greens (EELV) to the mayor of Paris … But no known member of France insubordinate.

Celebrities had also made the trip as Bérénice Béjo and Michel Hazanavicius; Emmanuelle Béart or Samuel Le Bihan. Many people could not enter the room La Marbrerie, rented for the occasion. The organizers wanted to show their ability to gather on some key-ideas: "Europe, democracy, social justice and ecology".

Several people followed one another at the podium to develop the project of Place public: a horizontal movement, ecologist and leftist. Raphael Glucksmann confessed to being " a little stressed " to the success of his initiative. "We are experiencing a rocking moment, especially ecologicallaunched the young author. We are going to build a big open house without a nightclub keeper. Faced with authoritarian temptations we will badume more democracy. Faced with the rise of xenophobia we will defend the reception of migrants. We must never think about what would be paid for. The challenge is immense. " And continue by developing the urgency of the fight against global warming and against the populisms of "Trump, Salvini, Putin, Erdogan and Brexit".

Thomas Porcher, for his part, badured that "The world is not well". And to address the 600 people present: "You can not get used to the homeless, you can not accept that a human being who left his country and that one speaks of air hole, statistics … But what it is is this world? We are never too much to fight against social injustice! "

" Commune house "

Jo Spiegel, the mayor of Kingersheim (Haut-Rhin) was keen to defend his model of direct democracy that he applies in his city. Not hesitating to quote several intellectual references, such as Hannah Arendt, Jean Jaurès or Pierre Mendès France, he defended a "Consolidated approach of the world, of the person on the system, of the citizen on the individual. It's a difficult, subversive path. It is that of democracy. " He did not miss a few arrows in the direction of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen. "We defend radicalism. We are not one of those who shout louder or who exploit the fears. "

Green activist Claire Nouvian denounced "Consanguinity between lobbies and power". Addressing the tens of thousands of members claimed by Place public, she lambasted the "Capitalism that leads us to the edge of the abyss". She completes: "Nothing is fatal. What is fatal is to be inaction. At worst we will be fools, if we crash it does not matter. The "you" must become "us", a powerful citizen force, a majority force. " Rendez-vous is already taken for other initiatives, in France, to consolidate a very young movement – barely a week of existence. With a focus on the possibility of presenting a union list in the European elections of May 2019.