Around three months before the European elections, Jordan Bardella and his National Rally list have 30% voting intentions, far ahead of the Macronists, led by Valérie Hayer, at 18% and the PS-Place publique list led by Raphaël Glucksmann ( 12%). Building on these favorable polls, the president of the RN was the guest of the show C to you on France 5 this Wednesday March 27. The opportunity for Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team to question him about his party’s program but also about his private life… The presenter took the opportunity to question the 28-year-old politician about his participation in the show Intimate ambitionby Karine le Marchand, currently being filmed.
“Did your parents agree to testify on the show?” asked Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine, just after discussing her autobiography, which will be released after the European elections. “Not only did they agree, but they also surprised me by doing it! I wasn’t aware of it… So the French will have the joy and pleasure of discovering my parents in this show,” replied Jordan Bardella, visibly touched by the initiative of his mother Luisa and his father Olivier. Marine Le Pen’s right-hand man continued by saying a little more about the television project: “I am followed by Karine le Marchand’s teams for several months. They also follow other political leaders. It focuses on behind the scenes and the way in which we remain women and men with a heart, feelings, passion , convictions… You know, when we leave the TV sets, we are Mr. and Mrs. Everybody. In any case, I remain that.”
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What do we know about Jordan Bardella’s parents?
If their faces are not yet known to the general public, several pieces of information concerning Jordan Bardella’s parents are however known. Both are Italian immigrants, who separated when their only son was a year and a half old. Jordan Bardella grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis, in the popular neighborhood of the Gabriel-Péri city, with his mother, originally from Turin and specialized territorial agent for nursery schools (Atsem) in Saint-Denis. Olivier Bardella runs a small drinks vending machine business in the affluent town of Montmorency, in Val-d’Oise. As a child, the future politician saw his father on Wednesdays and weekends. Questioned by the teams ofCorrespondent in April 2023, he confided that his childhood had been marked by “difficult ends of the month“: “I know this because I saw my mother struggle to make it through the month, her whole life, my whole childhood. I saw that for twenty years.”
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