Jordan Bardella

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Jordan Bardella (2019)

Jordan Bardella (born September 13, 1995 in Drancy , Département Seine-Saint-Denis ) is a French politician of the Rassemblement national (RN). He has been the head of the youth organization Génération Nation since 2018 . In the 2019 European elections he was the top candidate for the RN. Since then he has been a member of the European Parliament and vice-chairman of the RN.

Life and political career

Bardella comes from an Italian immigrant family and grew up in a social housing estate (HLM) in the Paris suburb of Drancy. He trained the martial art of Aikido for seven years and passed the Baccalauréat with the grade “very good”. As a result, he received a performance scholarship , but he broke off his studies of geography at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in the third year of his studies in order to devote himself entirely to politics.

He joined the right-wing extremist Front National (FN) at the age of 16 , although he said he was more enthusiastic about the leader Marine Le Pen than about the party itself. In 2014 he became secretary of the FN in his home department of Seine-Saint-Denis. From 2015 he worked as an assistant to MEP Jean-François Jalkh and was appointed the party's representative for the problems of the banlieues . In March 2015, he ran for a seat on the Departmental Council , but failed with 41% of the vote. In the regional election in December of the same year , however, he moved into the regional council of Île-de-France . In January 2016 he initiated the FN initiative Banlieues patriotes (“patriotic suburbs”), which is supposed to take care of the outskirts of the big cities, which they consider neglected.

In the 2017 general election , Bardella ran in the 12th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, but was eliminated with 15% in the first ballot. Within the party, he was temporarily close to Florian Philippot , but when Florian Philippot founded his own party, Les Patriotes , in autumn 2017 , Bardella stayed in the FN and was then appointed by chairman Le Pen as one of the party's spokespersons. Since March 2018 he has been a member of the party executive committee ( bureau national ) and head of the youth organization Front national de la jeunesse (FNJ). In this position he formed an alliance with the youth organization of the Italian Lega Nord . The National Front was renamed Rassemblement national in 2018 , the youth organization Génération nation .

For the 2019 European elections , Bardella - at the age of 23 - was put up as the top candidate on the RN list. With 23.3% of the vote, it became the strongest force nationwide and he entered the European Parliament . There he sits in the Identity and Democracy group , is a member of the Petitions Committee and a delegate in the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee. He was the second youngest member of the European Parliament (after Ilka Schröder , who moved in in 1999 at the age of 21). In June 2019, Bardella was elected 2nd deputy to the party chairman Le Pen.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Valérie Hacot: Jordan Bardella, le rajeunissement nationally. In: Le Parisien , 25 September 2018.
  2. ^ A b Tristan Berteloot: Jordan Bardella, poupée de Front pour les européennes. In: Liberation , December 26, 2018.
  3. ^ Virginie Le Guay: Européennes: Le Rassemblement national abat sa carte jeune. In: Paris Match , December 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ Juliette Campion: Européennes: quatre choses à savoir sur Jordan Bardella, la jeune tête de liste choisie par Marine Le Pen. France Info, January 13, 2019.
  5. ^ A b Européennes: Jordan Bardella, tête de liste du Rassemblement national aux airs de faire-valoir. In: Le Journal du Dimanche , January 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ Emmanuel Galiero: Le FN lance son collectif banlieues patriotes. In: Le Figaro , January 26, 2016.
  7. ^ Entry on Jordan Bardella in the European Parliament 's database of representatives
  8. ↑ Jordan Bardella ProMu 2ème du vice-président Rassemblement national. Europe 1, June 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bardella, Jordan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Drancy