1. Jean Messiha was appointed Deputy Undersecretary of Management at the Ministry of Defence in 2014 before he joined the National Front in 2016, when he became spokesman of Horaces, a group of high-ranking civil servants and business executives who meet once a month to discuss the party platform.
Jean Messiha stood as a candidate in the 2017 legislative election in the 4th constituency of the Aisne department.
In 2022, Jean Messiha joined presidential candidate Eric Zemmour's newly-founded Reconquete party and became its spokesman.
Jean Messiha was born Hossam Boutros Jean Messiha in 1970 in Cairo, Egypt, to a family of Coptic Christians; his father was a diplomat.
Jean Messiha lived in Bogota, Colombia from the age of 3 to 7.
Jean Messiha graduated from Sciences Po, where one of his professors was Henri Guaino.
Jean Messiha's thesis was about the budgetary policies of the Maastricht Treaty and Amsterdam Treaty.
Jean Messiha graduated from the Ecole nationale d'administration in 2005.
Jean Messiha began his career as a high-ranking civil servant in 2005.
Jean Messiha was appointed as Deputy Undersecretary of Management at the Ministry of Defence in 2014.
Jean Messiha became an advisor to National Rally leader Marine Le Pen in 2014.
Jean Messiha has asserted his belief in Renaud Camus's Great Replacement conspiracy theory, whereby Christian populations are being "replaced" through non-European immigration, specifically from Muslim and African countries.
In November 2020, several news outlets reported that Jean Messiha was going to leave the National Rally.
In March 2021, Jean Messiha made the headlines in affirming the existence of a "black privilege" during the 46th Cesar Awards.
Since the late 2010s, Jean Messiha's fame has grown in France, mainly due to his interventions in the TV shows of C8 and CNews and his activities on social networks.
In 2020, the French website Arret sur images indicates Jean Messiha is "the favourite RN's member of Canal+ group".
Jean Messiha has described himself as a "naturalized ethnic Frenchman" and "Arab outside, French inside".