From Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Jacques Duclos and Eva Joly, accents were assumed, imitated and even mocked by politicians. Selection of the best accents. Selected the people who got the most attention.
Three months before the XIX Congress of the French Communist Party, Jacques DUCLOS (Communist Senator and former Secretary General of the PC) is interviewed after a preparatory meeting. He explains his party’s positions.
During questions to the government, the Alsatian deputy of Bas-Rhin Bruno STUDER, of La République en marche, imitated the Alsatian accent to ask his question. This did not please everyone in Alsace, even if some consider it as an answer to Jean-Luc MELENCHON who had mocked a few days before the Toulouse accent of a journalist who asked him a disturbing question...
The day after the searches carried out on his home and the seat of his party, La France insoumise, while he was questioned about these facts in the corridors of the National Assembly, Jean-Luc MELENCHON did not hesitate, in front of the cameras and microphones, to imitate the accent of a journalist from Toulouse who asked him a disturbing question (...) rather than answering on the merits... Then, as if that were not enough, he adds: "Does anyone have a question formulated in French?"
During her enthronement meeting as EELV candidate in the presidential election, Eva JOLY evokes her origins and her (Norwegian) accent: "I am French by choice and conviction... My accent is the mark of the influence of France and its culture all over the world."
Jean-Claude GAUDIN, Minister of Regional Planning, evokes his characteristic Marseilles accent: "I cannot cheat, I have the accent that my father gave me, and even if it makes Paris smile, for nothing in the world, I would change..."
Questioned by Arlette CHABOT about the battles of egos between politicians within a party, Martine AUBRY, First Secretary of the Socialist Party, talks about the tensions within the majority by imitating Charles PASQUA and his Marseilles accent.
Jean LASSALLE, rural candidate in the presidential election, evokes, in a stable in the middle of the calves, the authentic side of his campaign (no pun intended): "Is it the past to worry about the future of agriculture that has always enabled France to recover... I will leave it to the public to judge me but I will have been at the end of my convictions."