The book by Jordan Bardella, president of the far-right National Rally party, comes out on Saturday November 9. Titled What I'm looking for, the work will be printed in 155,000 copies and will benefit from an intense communication plan on the channels of the Bolloré group, which is also the owner of the publishing house which publishes the work, Fayard.
But what is this work about, between political reflections and autobiography? 20 Minutes summarizes three passages for you, published in the columns of Figaro.
The first name Jordan
Jordan Bardella explains that he suffered from his first name which, according to him, attracted “mocking smiles and condescending remarks”. “I was often self-conscious when, far from my city, I met people who did not come from my background. I had trouble saying my first name, accepting it. Immersed in a political world populated by Arthur, Charles, François or Donatien from more traditional backgrounds, I was far from the first names that resonated in Saint-Denis during my first twenty years,” assures the president of the party. extreme right.
But he also claims to have made his first name “a strength”. This “hot iron marker, the identity card of my social class” would therefore have become “memory of [s]on the way, child of the working classes and son of Italian migrants, heir to republican meritocracy.”
His family
Jordan Bardella emphasizes his Italian origins in his book. His mother, Luisa, was born in Turin, his father, of Kabylo-Alsatian and Italian origin, was born in Montreuil. He also talks about his grandfather, now a migrant in Morocco, who criticized the evolution of France when he fished alongside him. “Often, he evoked the past during these long moments waiting for the fish to bite the hook: 'France has changed a lot. I no longer recognize this country. Everything is disorder, tension, these attacks, this feeling of dirt when we arrive at Porte de la Chapelle. I miss France, but I don't want to come back.” “, writes Jordan Bardella, then expressing indignation: “How many of our parents, how many of our elders today express their dismay at no longer recognizing this much-loved France? »
Emmanuel Macron
In this work which combines autobiography and political project, Jordan Bardella also evokes the President of the Republic. He recounts in particular the “Saint-Denis Meetings”, during which Emmanuel Macron brought together the party leaders. He “gave me the image of a France like an airliner in the sky, without a pilot,” assures Jordan Bardella, who takes the opportunity to crush the other political forces, replaying the score of his party: “There is them, and there is us. Emmanuel Macron in power, the RN in opposition. » He says that “the other parties [lui] seem destitute, finding nothing very particular to defend: the right will have been silent; the left, demagogic and caricatured as usual.” And he concludes that he “left[s] adversaries without any complexes.”
