Jordan Bardella

Jordan Bardella

MEP
Official portrait, 2024
President of National Rally
Assumed office
5 November 2022
Vice President
Preceded byMarine Le Pen
Leader of Patriots for Europe
Assumed office
8 July 2024
Preceded byPosition established
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
2 July 2019
ConstituencyFrance
Vice President of the National Rally
In office
16 June 2019 – 5 November 2022
Preceded by
Succeeded by
  • Steeve Briois
  • Louis Aliot
  • David Rachline
National Director of Génération Nation
In office
12 March 2018 – 4 July 2021
Preceded byGaëtan Dussausaye
Succeeded byAleksandar Nikolic
Spokesman of the National Rally
In office
21 September 2017 – 16 June 2019
LeaderMarine Le Pen
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byLaurent Jacobelli
Member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France
Assumed office
18 December 2015
PresidentValérie Pécresse
ConstituencySeine-Saint-Denis
Personal details
Born (1995-09-13) 13 September 1995 (age 31)
Drancy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Political partyNational Rally (2012–present)
Other political
affiliations		Génération Nation
(2012–2021)
Domestic partnerNolwenn Olivier (2020–present)
Alma materParis-Sorbonne University (did not graduate)

Jordan Bardella (fr; born 13 September 1995) is a French politician who has been the president of the National Rally (RN) since 2022. He was the party's acting president from September 2021 to November 2022. He was vice-president from 2019 to 2022. Bardella has also been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. He has been a regional councillor of Île-de-France since 2015.

Personal life

Bardella was born on 13 September 1995 in Drancy, Seine-Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris, as an only child.

Bardella received a high school diploma at the semi-private Catholic lycée Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle. He failed the entrance exam for Sciences Po, Bardella studied geography at Paris-Sorbonne University but dropped out to focus on politics.

Bardella was in a relationship with Nolwenn Olivier from 2020 to 2024, niece of Marine Le Pen.

Bardella is an agnostic.

Notes

  1. ↑ Acting from 12 September 2021 – 5 November 2022
  2. ↑ When Bardella became president of Génération Nation, the official name was Front National de la Jeunesse (FNJ).

References

  1. ↑ Hacot, Valérie (25 December 2018). "Jordan Bardella, le rajeunissement national". leparisien.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 31 December 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "L'enfance de Jordan Bardella à Saint-Dennis, du mythe à la realite". lemonde.fr (in French). 2024-05-23. Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  3. ↑ "Jordan Bardella, les dessous de son émancipation". lefigaro.fr (in French). 2023-09-03. Archived from the original on 3 September 2023. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  4. ↑ Cohen, Roger (8 June 2024). "Jordan Bardella, the New Face of France's Right". The New York Times. Vol. 173, no. 60180. p. A9. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 8 June 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  5. ↑ "Jordan Bardella : notes catastrophiques, abandon de la fac… son parcours chaotique à l'université". ladepeche.fr (in French). 3 July 2024. Archived from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  6. ↑ "Le FN affiche sa volonté de (re)conquérir les banlieues". Le Monde.fr (in French). 3 September 2016. Archived from the original on 3 September 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  7. ↑ Kahn, Olivier (16 May 2019). "Politique. Jordan Bardella, l'insouciance de la jeunesse". vsd.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 16 May 2019. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "Jordan Bardella en couple avec l'une des petites-filles de Jean-Marie Le Pen". Paris Match (in French). 16 October 2020. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023.
  9. ↑ Grépinet, Mariana (2 November 2022). "Les plans de l'ambitieux Bardella : «Je suis très gaullien dans mon exercice du pouvoir»" [The plans of the ambitious Bardella: “I am very Gaullian in my exercise of power”]. Paris Match (in French). Archived from the original on 2 November 2022.

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