Raphaël Glucksmann: how did he meet Léa Salamé, his partner for nine years?

Politician Raphaël Glucksmann has been in a love affair with journalist Léa Salamé since 2015. A look back at the meeting between the two personalities during the filming of a very famous show.

He is one of the many political figures to have made headlines in recent weeks. Raphaël Glucksmann can rely on his very good results in the European elections, where he received 13.8% of the votes cast, to make his voice heard. A score that allows him to be an important voice when Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, leading to new legislative elections.

For several years, the famous essayist has been among the most followed politicians on social networks, with over 750,000 subscribers on Instagram alone. It must be said that the forty-year-old knows how to interest Internet users since he is far from being a tight-lipped person. A point in common that he has with Léa Salamé, his partner for nine years. The famous journalist has also made a major choice in recent months: to stop political interviews during her beloved’s European campaign. “It is a wish on his part to protect the chain“the station said France Interwho has been recruiting her for several years.

Léa Salamé and Raphaël Gluckmann: a love story that lasts

This type of sacrifice, Léa Salamé would never have imagined making it in 2015, when she met Raphaël Glucksmann on the set of the show We are not lying down, formerly presented by Laurent Ruquier on France 2. Then a columnist within the program, she exchange with his future companion, guest. It was love at first sight almost immediately.

“I remind you that I was not originally going out with a politician. When I met Raphaël, he was an editorialist, a writer, a whistleblower, but not a politician.. Maybe if he had been a politician I wouldn’t have gone there!“, she confided during an interview published on the show C to You in 2023. A love story that surprised more than one person.Personally, I didn’t see or feel anything that night”, Laurent Ruquier also declared in the columns of TV 2 Weeks. An unexpected couple!