French politician born on September 13, 1995 in the suburbs of Paris. He was elected head of the far-right National Rally party on November 5, 2022, succeeding its leader, Marine Le Pen, the daughter of the party's founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Jordan Bardella was elected by 85% of the votes of the party's supporters, and is the first person to head it outside the Le Pen family, which has led the party since its founding in 1972.
Birth and upbringing
Jordan Bardella was born on September 13, 1995 in the city of Drancy in the Saint-Denis region in the Paris suburb, which is known for a large presence of immigrants of Arab and African origin.
He comes from a family of Italian origins, and his paternal grandmother is of Algerian origin, as her father (his grandmother's father) is called "Mohamed Al-Saghir Mada", and he came to France from the Kabylie region in the thirties of the last century to work in construction.
Study and training
Jordan Bardella received his baccalaureate degree with distinction, very good, in Saint-Denis.
He continued his studies at the Sorbonne University, majoring in geography, but soon left the walls of the prestigious university without obtaining a university degree, to devote most of his time to the political struggle in the ranks of the extreme right.
Functions and Responsibilities
In 2014, Jordan Bardella took over the position of the former Administrative Secretary of the National Front party.
In 2015, he was elected regional advisor to the party, and in 2018, he took over the position of spokesman for the far-right party and its leader, Marine Le Pen.
In 2019, he was elected as a member of the European Parliament, and in 2021 he assumed the interim presidency of the party equally with Marine Le Pen.
intellectual orientation
Jordan Bardella adopts the ideas of the far-right known through his hostility to immigration, immigrants and the Islamic presence in France in particular.
Bardella believes that Muslims pose a threat to the future of France and the French, adopting in turn the theory of the "Great Replacement".
A lawsuit was filed against Bardella after he described the city of "Tarab", on the outskirts of the capital, as the "Islamic Republic", because it includes a dense Muslim community and one of the largest mosques in the Paris region.
Jordan Bardella with Marine Le Pen after being elected leader of the far-right National Rally (Reuters)
political experience
Jordan Bardella obtained the membership card of the former "National Front" party (now the National Rally) when he was still a high school student and he was only 16 years old, and at the age of 19 he became the youngest administrative secretary of the National Front in the "Saint-Denis" region in the Paris region In 2015, he became a parliamentary assistant.
In 2016, Jordan Bardella, then in his early twenties, created the Young Nationalists with the aim of persuading suburban residents to vote for Marine Le Pen in the presidential election.
In 2017, Bardella joined Marine Le Pen's presidential campaign and became the spokesperson for the far-right party.
In 2019, Jordan Bardella took over the leadership of the "National Rally" party list, which ran in the European Parliament elections, and in 2021 he won the temporary presidency of the far-right party.
Jordan Bardella has a special relationship with the Marine Le Pen family, which explains his closeness to them, not only politically and intellectually, but because he is related to her niece.