He was the big favourite. At 27, Jordan Bardella was elected, this Saturday, November 5, president of the National Rally. He largely defeated the mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, who obtained 15%, against 85% for the dolphin of Marine Le Pen. The gap is greater than expected and hoped for by its supporters, especially in a context of high participation (71%). If the score of the new president of the RN is a plebiscite, the atmosphere was not really festive in the ranks of supporters.
The congress, organized at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris, is being held in a moribund context for the party, which had made November 5 the date of the concretization of its notabilisation. The racist remarks of the deputy of the 5th constituency of Gironde, Grégoire de Fournas, during a parliamentary session on Thursday recalled the old moons of the party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen.
The strategy of trivialization carried by Marine Le Pen and taken up by Jordan Bardella since his enthronement as interim leader of the party on the eve of the presidential election, a year ago, to relieve her of the management of the partisan machine in the race for the Elysée was shaken by it. After having managed to place 89 elected members in the National Assembly, the unsuccessful candidate in the second round of the presidential election hoped to concretize the new status of her party on the political spectrum. The task will now fall to her faithful lieutenant, Jordan Bardella, whose favors she did not hide despite her public reserve.
Entering the ranks of the far-right formation at the age of 17, Jordan Bardella was in turn a member of the RN Youth Party, regional councilor in Ile-de-France, spokesperson, member of the office national and now president of the National Rally. Revealed thanks to his ease in front of the cameras and his salient formulas during televised debates, he is popular with the militant base of the RN and supported by executives. Taunted by his opponent for having supported the conspiracy theory of the great replacement, Jordan Bardella must hold a speech, at the end of the day, with a view to bringing together his political family. She should agree on one point: everyone hopes for a new candidacy of Marine Le Pen in the presidential election of 2027.
