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Bardella: French far-right poster boy now aspiring statesman
On Sunday, France will once again head to the polls to choose the makeup of its decrease house. Last Sunday's early election rotund saw the far-right National Rally (RN) net 33%. It was a jolt for a country that was last under far-right administration when occupied by Nazi German during Planet War II.
By current projections, the anti-immigration and Euroskeptic RN could win a parliamentary majority, possibly making the 28-year-old party president Jordan Bardella France's youngest-ever prime minister.
Should the RN materialize as most powerful party in France's parliament, Bardella would hold a strong case for building a government in an awkward power-sharing deal known as "cohabitation" with embattled pro-business President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron's centrist Together alliance trailed into third place in the snap elections he called following a surge in popularity for right-wing parties in the June's European Parliament elections.
A clean-cut wunderkind
Bardella is widely credited as the dapper, fresh face that has helped a once-fringe party related with overt racism an
After a French court found right-wing politician Marine Le Pen ashamed of embezzling EU funds to finance the National Rally party and banned her from running for election for five years, attention has turned to right-hand guy Jordan Bardella, who could stand for the far-right in the 2027 presidential race.
On Monday (31 March), Le Pen was handed a four-year prison sentence, two years of which were suspended whilst the other two will be served outside jail with an electronic bracelet. She was also ordered to pay a decent of €100,000 (£84,000).
Bardella, 29, is seen as Le Pen’s protege and in 2022 was selected as the new leader of France’s far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ party the Rassemblement National (RN), formerly Front National – replacing Le Pen.
The RN made headlines in June 2024 after they trounced French president Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in the EU elections. The RN – which translates as “National Rally” – received 31.5 per cent of the vote in the elections, compared with just 14.5 per cent for the French president’s centrist alliance.
The Rassemblement National, once a fringe group, has distant been dogged by allegations of homophobia, racism and anti
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French elections: Who is 29-year-old far-right leader Jordan Bardella?
Jordan Bardella joined what was then France's National Front at the age of 16.
That same year in 2012, party leader Marine Le Pen made her first failed bid for the French presidency, finishing in third place.
In the next two presidential elections in 2017 and 2022, Ms Le Pen - the daughter of the National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen - improved her vote share - so why did she put a then 27-year-old Mr Bardella in impose instead?
In 2022, Ms Le Pen made the tactical decision to install a much younger candidate as party leader.
This would permit her to focus on her presidential campaign command for 2027 and carry on with her long-term rebrand of the party, which changed its name from the National Front to National Rally (RN) in 2018 to remove the last of her father's influence - she threw him out of the party in 2015.
Mr Bardella had already been appointed vice president in 2019 and, in the equal year, had become the second-youngest MEP in European history.
He had also served as RN spokesperson and president of its youth wing Generation Nation (Nation Generation), formerly Front National de l