Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not have his tongue in his pocket. The president of the group La France insoumise (LFI) in the National Assembly once again proved it during its passage in Balance your post! broadcast Thursday February 11, 2021 on C8. On the occasion of his invitation to Cyril Hanouna's show, the 69-year-old politician discussed with the talk-show team around several themes on which the government has been working lately, namely, the coronavirus health crisis, police violence or the law on separatism. Raquel Garrido, former leader of the radical left party, was among the chroniclers.
When the presenter asked her if she "to love being Prime Minister of Jean-Luc Mélenchon", the latter did not leave time for his former spokesperson to respond, daring a little pique to Édouard Philippe. "She's a friend, I wouldn't do such a thing on her. She's pure prison.", he said before adding with humor: "You saw Monsieur Édouard Philippe, when he arrived he was all black, he ended up like the 101st Dalmatian, half white, half black. " Jean-Luc Mélenchon thus referred to the depigmentation of the beard of Édouard Philippe, which appeared some time before the end of his mandate as Prime Minister.
Édouard Philippe, suffering from vitiligo
In the columns of Paris Match in June 2020, the ex-right arm of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, lifted the veil on the reasons for these white spots. "It's a disease – vitiligo – without seriousness, neither painful nor contagious ", he confided. According to Professor Ezzedine interviewed by Doctissimo, stress can be a triggering and revealing factor of this pathology:"In half of the cases, it was a big shock, a trauma that revealed the vitiligo. After, daily stress, related to work for example, can worsen an already established situation. " This is not the first time that Édouard Philippe has faced this kind of mockery. According to the magazine Challenges, the "102nd Dalmatian" is one of the nicknames given to him by some ministers. Others called him "Kung-Fu Panda" or "Norman cow".
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