Jordan Bardella

President Franklin D Roosevelt looked down on him as an arrogant fantasist, and barely tolerated his place in the anti-Hitler alliance

He co-edited, with Safia Dahani, the book Idées reçues sur l'extrême droite ("Misconceptions about the Far Right"), to be published in November

The allegations come seven months before France’s presidential election, with Marine Le Pen leading opinion polls

Antisemitism Allegations Threaten French Far Right’s Efforts to Clean Up Its Image

Jordan Bardella (31), leader of the National Rally party, was topping opinion polls as a potential presidential candidate until Le Pen was cleared to stand after her own legal setbacks this summer

Two leading figures of France's far-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, have taken a firm position towards Moscow in a statement released on Saturday 19 September

As sabotage and particularly serious suspicious incidents have increased across Europe in recent weeks, French president Emmanuel Macron hastily convened a meeting at the Elysée Palace on Friday, September 18, with all the presidential candidates and leaders of political parties

Le Pen was pressed for her position by journalists from France TV, the state broadcaster, on Monday

A request involving female staff triggered worker anger, a strike and probe

Bardella is likely to become prime minister if Marine Le Pen wins next year's presidential election

On two subjects, pension reform and a proposed ban on women wearing headscarves in public, Bardella emphasized the nuances in his own position, in contrast to Le Pen's party line

Nigel Farage has agreed a deal with France's hard-right National Rally (RN) party on returning migrants who attempt to cross the English Channel in small boats

Nigel Farage’s party took funding from a US firm for three polls it commissioned earlier this year costing £32,500, Channel 4 News reported

Lagging far behind, Bruno Retailleau, the representative of the right-wing Les Républicains (LR) party, has shown no desire to withdraw, citing his commitment not to betray his voters

Investigation into Nigel Farage finances resumes after by-election win

60,000 cross into Spanish territory of Ceuta and at least 34 die after border breach

Wildfires raging across France and Spain have forced more than 300,000 people from their homes and stretched national firefighting services to their limits

Germany is on high alert after a deadly vehicle-ramming and knife attack near Berlin's Christopher Street Day (CSD) Pride parade left one woman dead and 29 people injured

Marine Le Pen is set to run in next year’s French presidential election after challenging an embezzlement conviction that had blocked her fourth attempt at office

It came after an appeal court shortened her sentence for misappropriating European Parliament funds that had previously barred her from running

She was convicted of embezzling European Parliament funds to pay staff at her anti-immigrant National Rally

The decision by the 57-year-old veteran of three presidential races sets up a fourth campaign like no other: potentially seeking votes while subject to monitoring and with a judge possibly deciding how, and for how long, the punishment is applied

Bardella wrote of his upbringing in the working-class Parisian suburb of Drancy, where he was predominantly raised by his mother, a creche worker from Italy, in a political memoir that was a surprise runaway hit in 2024

Marine Le Pen has tasted defeat before, but if the Paris appeal court bars her from running in the 2027 presidential election, it could bring down the curtain on her long political career as leader of France's nationalist right

Making his foray into politics with the far-right National Rally (RN), his peers answered to Arthur, Charles or François — some of the more traditional names usually associated with the French political class

Marine Le Pen has tasted defeat before, but if the Paris appeal court bars her from running in the 2027 presidential election, it could bring down the curtain on her long political career as leader of France's nationalist right

After the country assembled a formidable squad led by nonwhite players with heritage from across its former colonial holdings, Le Pen disowned them as “fake Frenchmen who don’t sing the Marseillaise or visibly don’t know it.”

Le Pen, 57, has challenged a March 2025 ruling that found her and other members of her National Rally party guilty of misusing European Parliament funds in the hiring of aides from 2004 to 2016

Le Pen, the 57-year-old leader of National Rally, has already run for president three times and came second to Emmanuel Macron in 2022 and 2017

Meanwhile, Jordan Bardella has denounced it as judicial persecution

A spokesperson for the National Rally did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for comment

With less than a year to go until France's April 2027 presidential election, the far-right National Rally party still hasn't designated a candidate

In the Polish capital, Bardella had a closed-door meeting with nationalist president Karol Nawrocki, who is backed by the Law and Justice (PiS) opposition party, and with Krzysztof Bosak, one of the leaders of Poland's far-right Confederation coalition

Since 2022, Le Pen has advocated for a reform setting the minimum retirement age between 60 and 62, depending on when individuals entered the workforce

With Americans in turmoil amid the police killing of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter protests and the 2020 elections, many politically attuned millennials took to their screens to vent their frustration

The 30-year-old leader of France’s far-right National Rally — and the favorite to replace Marine Le Pen if she is barred from running in 2027 — sought during a 45-minute exclusive interview with POLITICO to put distance between himself and the U.S. president he once openly admired

The U.S. government's order for Anthropic to withdraw its most powerful artificial intelligence models has sparked a wave of criticism from both advocates and opponents of AI regulation

The outbreak of violence has heightened concerns about potential unrest during the World Cup, which kicks off in North America later this month

That prospect of stopping Bardella has hit a major potential hurdle, however, as momentum builds behind the campaign of the firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-left France Unbowed party

France, as well as Algeria and Morocco — countries with complex and often fraught relationships with their former colonial power — have qualified for the tournament, increasing the risk of tensions spilling over

It was hardly an epochal dispute, but when France’s two leading far-right politicians, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, split recently over whether to impose a windfall profits tax on a giant French oil company — she was all for it; he was reluctant — political analysts in Paris sat up and took notice

The challenge is significant, as Glucksmann's former allies from the Socialist Party have continuously undermined him

Kylian Mbappé, the French soccer superstar, has never made a secret of his distaste for the far right

A day after top striker Kylian Mbappé defended his decision to wade into the messy world of French politics in a Vanity Fair profile, the far-right National Rally leaders Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen trolled Les Bleus’ captain on social media