Jordan Bardella emancipates himself step-by-step from Le Pen supervision, holding the RN with a agency hand | EUROtoday

Marine Le Pen now not even pretends to compete together with her runner-up within the recreation of applause meter. “Yes, this fall is the time [Jordan] Bardella. But I feel like it’s still Bardella time.”smiled the leader of the National Rally (RN) deputies, Tuesday, November 12, in a plush lounge in Paris, where the president of the RN organized the launch party for his book. Funny contrast for the member for Pas-de-Calais. On the eve of the prosecution’s indictment in the trial which threatens her with ineligibility, she attended the celebration of her foal as a spectator, in the middle of a good number of RN deputies and many heads of the Canal+ Group, invited as a family – owned, like Fayard, the publisher of the work, by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.

Marine Le Pen may repeat that Jordan Bardella’s popularity would serve her fourth presidential ambition, but current events are putting their hierarchy to the test more than ever. Between her and him, I promise, there will be no rivalry. Even less betrayal. “We are not like the others”repeats Jordan Bardella in every single place. As proof of mutual loyalty, the 2 far-right leaders have sealed their destinies on paper from September 2023: Marine Le Pen will purpose for the Elysée in 2027, Jordan Bardella Matignon. An immutable goal? The query has been requested too many occasions for one among them to discover the reply. Marine Le Pen sweeps away doubts with a tireless pirouette: “You by no means know, I might all the time get hit by a truck. »

Jordan Bardella is now less ironic. To Pascal Praud, who asked him, Tuesday morning, on CNews, “who is the right person” to make his triumph “camp”the MEP replied that “That’s the circumstances that determine it”. More necessarily Marine Le Pen, therefore. Jordan Bardella then took care not to deny the journalist who, twice, reported to him that, “for some, the name “Le Pen” bans the Elysée”.

Maintain verticality

It would take less to suspect the apprentice author of aiming higher, and faster, than his elder sister’s aspiring prime minister. She herself is no longer offended, publicly, by an outing which once would have merited reprimand. “He’s right. Today I am the natural candidate for my camp, but a presidential path requires several elements, including the desire and the ability to be so. And I know how political life can slip you banana skins”develops Marine Le Pen. The president of the RN group in the National Assembly is openly considering the prospect of a possible conviction in the affair of the European parliamentary assistants. “I, who do not believe in justice, told her that she would be condemned”confirms Philippe Olivier, his close advisor, who is there ” ready “. And does not reject any hypothesis, including the premature candidacy of Jordan Bardella.

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