Sophia Chikirou was thrown onto the front of the stage during the presidential elections 2017 and the breakthrough of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, with nearly 20% of the votes cast in the first round. It is to her that the leader of La France insoumise owes his media transformation, since she was his communications advisor. Since Mediapart revealed in October 2018 that the two personalities would have an extra-professional relationship, they do not display anything that could fuel rumors. Guest of the new number Facing Baba, Cyril Hanouna’s political program on C8 on January 27, 2022, the 70-year-old man has a private life that he fiercely protects, but, at a time when he wants to win the 2022 presidential election, we cannot prevent wondering about the intriguing communication expert who is part of his political clan.
Director of the consulting and communication company Mediascop as well as regional councilor for Ile-de-France, Sophia Chikirou is from Haute-Savoie, Bonneville precisely, where she was born forty-two years ago. Her father, a house painter, gave her a taste for the arts but she also owes him a political conscience. She was 16 when she joined the Socialist Party (PS) to support Lionel Jospin, writes Le Figaro who painted her portrait in 2017. After Political science in Grenoble, she continued in Paris becoming the parliamentary assistant of Michel Charzat, PS deputy-mayor of the 20th arrondissement. In 2007, Sophia Chikirou joined La Gauche Moderne (GM), a party that supported Nicolas Sarkozy at the time. A choice which she will later defend herself by explaining that she was “more disgusted with the PS than seduced by the GM“, according to The Parisian.
In 2009, return to the left for the young woman who participated in the founding of the Left Party (PG) of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. They already knew each other, because a few years before, they were side by side for Laurent Fabius during the socialist primary. Two years later, the tireless communicator was promoted press officer for a Jean-Luc Mélenchon who tries the presidential adventure. It was then that she founded her communication consulting company Mediascop with two partners. Then, direction the United States where she observes with attention the American policy and the campaign of the very left democrat Bernie Sanders. It is then in Spain that she will analyze the Podemos movement.
On the strength of her experience, she will renew the Mélenchonesque image. Express yourself on YouTube by hologram, make original secrets about quinoa in Gala or accept Karine Le Marchand’s invitation in An intimate ambition : so many choices that have built the new Mélenchon. Point will quote the political scientist Thomas Guénolé who describes it as “his right arm with which he is in osmosis“. And more if affinities? Jean-Luc Mélenchon had qualified as ignominy the remarks on an alleged couple with Sophia Chikirou.
The one who blocks any speculation about his private life, initially protecting his only daughter Maryline whose mother is Bernadette Abriel, made things clear on the set of Cyril Hanouna in Balance your post in February 2021: “I am single. (…) JI am a man who has a public activity and who has a private life. Give me a break.” After the various cases involving him with Sophia Chikirou, described both as a hard worker but also as a follower of brutal management, he decided not to let anything leak out about his intimacy, so that nothing could be reproached to him. and protect his own.