Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s Ultra right, was sentenced to five years of ineligibility for embezzlement on Monday (31). If appeals in court are denied, it will not be able to run for presidency in 2027.
Thus, Jordan Bardella, leader of the Le Pen Party, the National Meeting (RN), may be chosen by the acronym for the presidential dispute, no matter how much she said she will not give up on politics.
Who is Jordan Bardella?
Jordan Bardella, 29, is a disciple of Marine Le Pen. He replaced her as leader of the National Meeting in November 2022 by winning an internal vote with 85% of the votes at the age of 27.
He has already been nicknamed “cyborg” for being considered a political machine in his meteoric career. And also of the “ideal son -in -law” of the far right, with a softer rhetoric, which distances itself from the traditional strency of extremist politicians.
Even so, he could not hide his more radical side. A report from one of the main French broadcasters, France 2, revealed the existence of an X Bardella account under the pseudonym Repnatdu Gaito.
The false profile was full of racist and homophobic comments. Jordan Bardella denied an account owner, but Marine Le Pen discreetly excluded the signature as soon as the information was released.
Bardella was born in 1995 in Doncy, commune of the suburb of Paris, in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, one of the poorest in France. He studied at a high -level private school and is the only child of divorced parents.
The mother faced financial difficulties, but her father’s support ensured that he had a comfortable life, quite different from the young people in the worker neighborhood where he grew up.
After participating in an oratory exercise in which he defended Le Pen’s ideas, still 16 he joined the national meeting.
He gained fame inside the party after expelling from the regional division of the acronym a young man who shared a video on social networks to explain his conversion to Islam.
Bardella, then departmental secretary of the party, said he was “unstable” and that the video with compliments to Islam was “the gout of water that overflowed the glass.”
After assuming the position of party secretary at age 19, he served for five months as assistant of a European deputy of the National Meeting in 2015. In the same year, he was first elected, as the candidate of the National Meeting in Seine-Saint-Denis for regional elections.
In the campaign, he stated that his goal was to “deconstruct the myth that opposes the national meeting and the suburbs.”
In 2017, he was part of Marine Le Pen’s presidential campaign team, which lost elections to Emmanuel Macron.
In 2018 and 2019, Marine Le Pen indicated him as the party’s first spokesman and, a year later, as the candidate at the top of the national meeting list in the European elections.
He then began to explore the narrative of the suburban boy, of humble origin. He said his mother was an Italian immigrant who raised him on his own.
Amid the attempted national meeting of aiming to voters of the left-class left-class party, Bardella stated that she lived in the eighth floor of a “monotonous bloc” in Seine-Saint-Denis, “plagued by crime.”
Le Pen adopted him as a pupil because he helped her fulfill her goal of modernizing the party and pushing the image of her forerunner, the National Front, founded by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, the great name of the French ultra-right after World War II.
Le Pen Father was accused of Xenophobia and Anti -Semitism after denying the Holocaust several times and was condemned for incitement to racial hatred at least six times.
Bardella used social networks to catapult the new image of the party and push her away from her past. He has 2.1 million followers at Tiktok, making him the most popular French politician on the platform, as well as 854,000 Instagram followers.
But amid the attempt to take off from the party’s racist and xenophobic image, a report in the Liberio newspaper revealed that Bardella forwarded documents from the National Meeting to be printed by Frédéric Chatillon, former head of a neofascist and anti -Semitic student union.
Chatillon is a great friend of Marine Le Pen and was convicted in 2023 for fraud and excessive collection of materials from the National Meeting to mislead public funds.
But nothing that has shaken the popularity of the young politician, who after success in the European elections was already seen as a bridge to Le Pen was elected to the presidency in 2027 – something that, with the mentor’s conviction, may have turned to his own candidacy for the highest position in the country.
Jordan Bardella has helped to rejuvenate the national meeting and disguise the Xenophobic, nationalist and European-union image of the acronym. And so “the ideal son -in -law” can become a viable ultra -right option, which Le Pen failed to reach his three attempts to reach the Elisha Palace.
This content was originally published in who Jordan Bardella is, who can run for presidency instead of Le Pen on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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