Jordan Bardella
Jordan Bardella | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2024 | |
President of National Rally | |
Assumed office 5 November 2022[a] | |
Vice President | |
Preceded by | Marine Le Pen |
Leader of Patriots for Europe | |
Assumed office 8 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
Constituency | France |
Vice President of the National Rally | |
In office 16 June 2019 – 5 November 2022 | |
Preceded by |
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Succeeded by |
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National Director of Génération Nation[b] | |
In office 12 March 2018 – 4 July 2021 | |
Preceded by | Gaëtan Dussausaye |
Succeeded by | Aleksandar Nikolic |
Spokesman of the National Rally | |
In office 21 September 2017 – 16 June 2019 Serving with Sébastien Chenu and Julien Sanchez | |
Leader | Marine Le Pen |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Laurent Jacobelli |
Member of the Regional Council of Île-de-France | |
Assumed office 18 December 2015 | |
President | Valérie Pécresse |
Constituency | Seine-Saint-Denis |
Personal details | |
Born | Drancy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France | 13 September 1995
Political party | National Rally (2012–present) |
Other political affiliations | Génération Nation (2012–2021) |
Domestic partner | Nolwenn Olivier (2020–present) |
Alma mater | Paris-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
[change | change source]Bardella was born on 13 September 1995 in Drancy, Seine-Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris, as an only child.[1]
Bardella received a high school diploma at the semi-private Catholic lycée Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle.[2][3][4] He failed the entrance exam for Sciences Po,[5] Bardella studied geography at Paris-Sorbonne University but dropped out to focus on politics.[6][7]
Bardella was in a relationship with Nolwenn Olivier from 2020 to 2024, niece of Marine Le Pen.[8]
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ Acting from 12 September 2021 – 5 November 2022
- ↑ When Bardella became president of Génération Nation, the official name was Front National de la Jeunesse (FNJ).
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
Other websites
[change | change source] Media related to Jordan Bardella at Wikimedia Commons