Jordan Bardella
Also Bardella
French politician born in 1995, president of the far-right Rassemblement national (RN) since 2021.
Bardella was born on September 13, 1995, in Drancy, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. In 2021 he succeeded Marine Le Pen as president of the Rassemblement national (RN).
After the October riots, he called for "Antifa militias, far-left groups and the Black Bloc" to be designated terrorist organizations.
Sources
- Jordan Bardella (Wikipedia (French), accessed 2026-10-22)
- The rioting across France is a symptom of a much larger public and political crisis (CNN, accessed 2026-10-22)
In our stories
One riot, five French forums, five different worlds
On the far right, Le Pen blamed delinquents from the banlieues, and National Rally president Jordan Bardella demanded that antifa and Black Bloc groups be designated terrorist organisations.
Who is to blame? The government, LFI and a leak →
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