Jordan Bardella will release his first book on November 9

As is tradition in politics, Jordan Bardella tries his hand at writing. The president of the National Rally will release his first book on November 9. Titled, What I’m looking forthe work is published by Éditions Fayard. According to information from Figarothe MEP had to start rewriting his book, in the wake of the legislative elections. “The purpose of the book obviously could no longer be the same. What was initially intended to be a political manifesto transformed into a more personal and introspective reflection on the future of the movement and his own journey“, explained a party close to the newspaper.

If no additional details on the contents of the book have been disclosed, the choice of the publishing house has triggered numerous criticisms. The company has been managed since June by Lise Boëllthe editor who in the 2010s had made the journalist Figaro. Fayard is a subsidiary of Hachette Livre which belongs to the Vivendi group, owned by the billionaire Vincent Bolloré.

In a column published in The New Obsformer and current employees of Fayard are worried about a rapprochement with the extreme right. “We, former Fayard employees and departing employees, are faced with a situation of unprecedented gravitybefore which we cannot remain silent (…) Our role is not to comment on the choices of the shareholder and the current management, but faced with the news which has just broken, we cannot remain silent” , we can read.Publishing a far-right political leader, something any publishing house worthy of its name has not done for decades, is nothing other than a widening of the Overton window. This is why we cannot remain silent,” add these employees and former employees.

The Overton window designates what is acceptable in public opinion. This concept has appeared in the political sphere. “On one side of the political spectrum, far-right actors would work to make ideas formerly deemed ‘intolerable’ tolerable; on the other, left-wing actors would ‘censor’ speech previously deemed ‘ordinary'”, noted The World in an article dedicated to this subject in 2022.

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