Depeche – Raphaël Glucksmann leaves France Inter to devote himself to his party



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PARIS (AFP) –

The essayist Raphael Glucksmann, who has just launched a new party, Place Publique, announced Thursday that he left the radio France Inter, where he participated as a columnist for a weekly program, to devote himself fully to his political movement.

"To devote myself to the Place Publique movement, I'm stopping the Grand Face à Face on France Inter last Saturday!" Said Raphael Glucksmann on his Twitter account.

In a statement, the public radio confirmed the departure of the essayist, and announced that he would be replaced by Gilles Finchelstein, general director of the Jean Jaurès Foundation since 2000.

Raphaël Glucksmann participated alongside Natacha Polony on the show "The Big Face to Face", presented by Ali Baddou, since its creation in September 2017. Initially broadcast on Sunday as part of "Political issues", this meeting you dedicated to debates and controversy is scheduled on Saturday noon since September.

The essayist launched in early November with about twenty intellectuals, elected officials and personalities engaged a new party called Place Publique. A movement that claims to be an ecologist, leftist and pro-European, and would like to occupy the political space between supporters of Emmanuel Macron and those of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

On the media side, Raphaël Glucksmann had also directed the New Literary Magazine for a little less than a year, before leaving it this summer amid disagreements with its owner, Claude Perdriel.

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