Le Figaro selected passages from the book by the president of the National Rally, What I’m looking forpublished next Saturday by Fayard.
From his family origins to his political ambitions, Jordan Bardella recounts his life, he is only 29 years old, his progress within the RN thanks to the support of Marine Le Pen and his impressions of Emmanuel Macron, working closely with him during the meetings in Saint-Denis a year ago.
The first name
How can we forget the disbelief of an activist my age during a Parisian meeting: “Seriously ? Is your name really Jordan?» I blamed the mocking smiles and the condescending remarks, without understanding the reason. “Why did you choose this first name? Why didn’t you give me a second one? I asked my mother one evening. — With your father, we would have preferred an Italian first name, but we couldn’t agree. And the fashion was for Jordans at that time. » Since then, it has passed… (…) I was born in Drancy, in Seine-Saint-Denis, at the Bois d’Amour clinic. Our cities are called Arthur Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, Jean Moulin, Elsa…
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