his confessions about his deafness

In the media, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is often portrayed as a loudmouth politician, which vociferates and reacts to quarter turn. If this portrait of the candidate for the presidential election of 2022 contains some truth, one of the confidences made during his visit to The sofa, in 2015, could explain the reasons. In fact, whoever takes care of do not disclose anything about his personal life made an exception that day. To justify his way of expressing himself, he then explained that he had a slight handicap: “I’ve always had trouble hearing. But I didn’t know because at the time, we didn’t track it like now. It’s from father to son in my family.”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon then hinted that he was experiencing certain encounters “like an attack, the time to react”. To decipher the different words of his interlocutors, the politician must constantly redouble your efforts : “The imagination is developed as you cannot make up your mind. I can reconstruct a sentence on a word that I have heard. I can reconstruct a sentence on an expression.”.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s deafness, a disability that is his strength

Yes the understanding of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in front of his interlocutors can sometimes take longer because of his slight handicap, he seems to appreciate this ambiguity: “You, you see people arriving, you hear them. Me, no. I discover them when they are on me. It has always made me laugh when I am introduced (…) thunders, it thunders, it vociferates…’ (…) At first, you are shocked, and then afterwards, you say to yourself: ‘It’s an advantage that I have. case”. This confidence about his personal life was one of the few made by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. For Marc-Olivier Fogiel, having managed to pull the worms out of such a modest man was a real pride at the time. “We are not under an obligation of immediate results, there is no chrono. And so there were breaches, in particular with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He started on very personal things, even his handicap auditory which explains a lot of his anger. It was interesting, he expressed things differently”he confided to LCP/Public Senate a year after meeting the politician.