Jordan Bardella
France
National Rally
Member of the European Parliament
government
Jordan Bardella is a French politician who has been the president of the National Rally (RN) since 2022, after serving as acting president from September 2021 to November 2022 and as vice-president from 2019 to 2022. Bardella has also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019, when he was the lead candidate for the RN in the European Parliament election, and has been a regional councillor of Île-de-France since 2015 but resigned from his mandate in 2025.
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Sep 2, 2026
Lean Left
RN leader is facing internal chaos after the party proposed an unconstitutional penalization of the veil in public spaces, then backtracked.
Socialists view Bardella's flip-flop as proof of the far-right's unsophisticated and dangerous approach to secularism and Muslim rights.
Aug 31, 2026
Far Right
Il a visité la Foire de Châlons-en-Champagne la veille, marquant la présence du RN dans la campagne présidentielle.
Il est le chef de file naturel du RN, crédité d'une ligne claire sur l'immigration et les retraites, face à des adversaires divisés.
Aug 31, 2026
Far Left
RN vice-president staged a solo political comeback in the Marne, challenging Marine Le Pen's campaign narrative.
LFI sees the RN infighting as a sign of a party that is imploding under the weight of its own contradictions, but still dangerous.
Aug 30, 2026
Far Right
Bardella made his political rentrée at the Châlons-en-Champagne fair, addressing the 2027 race and Marine Le Pen's candidacy.
He must balance loyalty to Le Pen while positioning himself as the future after passing on the presidential run.
Aug 30, 2026
Lean Right
RN president declares 'It is up to Marine Le Pen to carry the destiny of our compatriots on her shoulders' at a rally in Châlons.
Bardella's coronation of Le Pen confirms RN's far-right threat, a central foil for LR to position as a serious, stable alternative.
Aug 30, 2026
Far Left
Son allié François Durvye est évincé du poste de conseiller spécial, signe de la rivalité avec Marine Le Pen pour la ligne économique et la candidate.
LFI y voit une lutte interne pour la domination du RN, qui ne change rien à son projet antisocial et anti-immigrés.
Aug 26, 2026
Far Left
Uncertain degree of involvement in RN's 2027 campaign remains a key question ahead of the October congress and after his dream of power faded.
LFI watches Bardella's marginalization as evidence of the far-right's fragility, but also sees Le Pen as an equally dangerous standard-bearer.
Aug 25, 2026
Far Right
He clashed with Pierre Pigasse (via Valeurs actuelles) over debt, mocking Pigasse's grasp of the Banque de France.
For RN, Bardella is the sharp economic counterweight who exposes the elite's dangerous illusions about magical debt erasure, reinforcing RN's fiscal credibility.
Aug 3, 2026
Far Right
Bardella is using the Ceuta deaths and the Tunisian blackouts to denounce the EU's external border strategy.
He is praised for refusing to accept the fatalist narrative that France must absorb the consequences of North African collapse.
Aug 3, 2026
Lean Left
RN president is spearheading the far-right's use of Ceuta images and anti-magistrate attacks to fuel anti-immigration sentiment.
Socialists see Bardella as the electoral incarnation of the far-right danger, and warn that Attal and Macron's lurches are playing into his hands.