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Jordan Bardella

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Jordan Bardella

Official portrait, 2024
President of National Rally
Assumed office
5 November 2022[a]
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[b]
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 29)
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

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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]

Bardella is an agnostic.[9]

  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

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  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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