Sophia Chikirou on the benches of the Assembly. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
NARRATIVE – The Paris MP, in a political and marital relationship with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is under the spotlight of internal criticism after revelations about her practices and her mode of expression. Those close to the Insoumis leader defend it vigorously.
Thursday afternoon at the University of Casablanca, as part of his visit to Morocco, Jean-Luc Mélenchon allowed himself “a certain detachment from the media sphere» from his country, France. “It does not reach, by any means, the performance of my video communications since each week, it is counted in the millions while the articles which say bad things about me are barely read by a few tens of thousands of people and even then, when they have time to waste…» An attack in his own way, sword drawn, as much intended to defend himself as to defend the closest elected official of his close clan, Sophia Chikirou, with whom he maintains a political and marital relationship.
The LFI MP from Paris is in fact at the heart of a media maelstrom. Following first revelations of the world on the largesse she granted herself in 2017 during the presidential campaign, a vitriolic portrait of her is offered on France 2 in Further investigation…
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