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Raphaël Glucksmann wins French social-democratic primary with 66% vote
Primary result
French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann won the primary of the French social-democratic camp with 66.17% of the vote from 120,787 voters.
French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann won the primary of the French social-democratic camp with 66.17% of the vote from 120,787 voters.
Voter Engagement
With a turnout of 86%, the primary underscored significant engagement within the social-democratic camp, essential for building momentum against competing political forces in upcoming elections.
With a turnout of 86%, the primary underscored significant engagement within the social-democratic camp, essential for building momentum against competing political forces in upcoming elections.
Powerful Result
“A left faithful to its values can unite, govern and win,” said Raphaël Glucksmann after securing 66.17% in the primary of the French social-democratic camp.
“A left faithful to its values can unite, govern and win,” said Raphaël Glucksmann after securing 66.17% in the primary of the French social-democratic camp.
French Social democratic primary: Raphaël Glucksmann wins big in first round
By EU News
Published on •Updated
One round was enough. French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann has won the primary of the French social-democratic camp, taking 66.17% of the vote in the first round of a contest that drew 120,787 voters, the organisers announced.
The leader of the Place publique party is far ahead of Socialist Party chief Olivier Faure, who secured 14% of the vote. Ségolène Royal, a prominent Socialist figure and former presidential candidate in 2007, who had hoped to spring a surprise, finished third with less than 8% of the vote.
The two other candidates, Jérôme Guedj and Emmanuel Maurel, each took close to 6%.
A result that “says something powerful”, according to the winner, who hailed, on X (source in French), “a left faithful to its values can unite, govern and win”.
“We are not here to win a squabble on the left. We are here to win the presidential election: turn the page on Macronism, stop the far right and change lives”, Raphaël Glucksmann added.
Turnout was a crucial issue in this primary, and with 86%, this strand of the left now hopes to build momentum.
Disrupted by a cyberattack that slowed down voting, the primary, which began on Friday morning, was extended until 6 p.m. on Sunday.
Speaking to EU News on the second day of the primary, political journalist and left-wing specialist Rachel Garrat-Valcarcel, author of the “Blocs & Partis” newsletter, said a turnout of “at least 80%” would be needed for the primary to be considered a success.
Other political forces are already firmly in the race, notably the far right with Marine Le Pen and the radical left with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Although not invited to take part in the primary, the latter nevertheless remained at the heart of the televised debates that preceded this weekend’s vote, amid discussions over an alliance with La France insoumise in the legislative elections and disagreements about possible support for the LFI candidate in the second round, should the centre-left fail to reach it.
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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