During his speech at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris, the new president of the National Rally displayed his ambitions for the party in 2027.
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” NOTWe are going to succeed Emmanuel Macron. “Jordan Bardella was ambitious and determined during his first speech as president of the National Rally (RN), Saturday, November 5, at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris. The 27-year-old politician has thus set himself the objective of “being ready for power” in 2027 and thus becoming a “party of government” beyond the “right-left divide”.
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The MEP also paid tribute to his mother, an Italian naturalized French, as well as to Marine Le Pen, the one who “made him discover politics” and to whom “he owes who he is”. The young man paused, letting a tear run down his cheek, then took a deep breath, leaning back slightly, his eyes half-closed, while the room applauded wildly. “She gave me a taste for commitment”, he corrected himself half a minute later, swearing his “recognition, but also (his) pride in working with her, but above all for her and by his side”, a way of responding to the over-ambitious claims made against him by some of his detractors, or of divergence with the “Marinist” line, which he rejects.
The fight against immigration at the top of the topics discussed
Jordan Bardella, however, gave a nod to his right fringe by lambasting “a France that would like to make identity a swear word”, while his acquaintances with “identities”, in particular those close to Éric Zemmour, are denounced. by his opponents. But, developing the fetish themes of the far-right party – the fight against immigration in the lead –, he wanted to reassure by affirming the need to “walk on our two feet by occupying the entire political spectrum, by worrying about the social anxiety at the end of the month as well as the vital urgency of the end of France”.
The appearance of a rally was however undermined as soon as his election was announced on Saturday noon, when Steeve Briois, a figure of the party, denounced in a vitriolic press release “a stunting” of the party “now sensitive, according to him, to upright positions. Without answering him directly, Jordan Bardella called for a “respectful and friendly attitude” from everyone.
On the other hand, he unambiguously supported the deputy Grégoire de Fournas, RN deputy excluded from the Assembly after having made remarks deemed racist, when Marine Le Pen had taken care on Saturday to silence the embarrassing affair. “The professionals of selective indignation manipulated a statement that evoked the logical return of illegal ships to the ports of origin”, defended the lucky candidate unreservedly.
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“I make you the formal and solemn promise to serve you and never to disappoint you”, declared the new president of the party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1972.