For the president of the National Rally, very careful of his image and adept at formatted communication for social networks, these gaps are so many snags in the costume of respectability and credibility that the nationalist party seeks to carve out for itself. for years.
Is there anyone? This Monday, November 18 on BFMTV, the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, added a new piece to his already well-stocked collection of sequences in which he remains silent, unable to respond to his interlocutor after having been found wanting. For the president of the National Rally, very careful of his image and adept at formatted communication for social networks, these gaps are so many snags in the costume of respectability and credibility that the nationalist party seeks to carve out for itself. for years.
Certainly, it is not certain that these television blackouts will undermine Jordan Bardella's popularity among his base, each of these lost games being able to be perceived by RN voters as an additional humiliation of their champion by the “system”. Compared to a classic right that Jordan Bardella is working to seduce, chaining knockouts while standing is however more annoying.
“Rule number one” – November 18, 2024, on BFMTV
The most devious will see in this latest blunder the beginnings of a betrayal by Jordan Bardella against Marine Le Pen. The ward would thus abandon his mentor in the open countryside, over whom hangs the threat of conviction in the affair of the parliamentary assistants of RN MEPs. Asked about the compatibility between a mention in the criminal record and a political candidacy under the banner of the RN, the author of What I'm looking for threw himself into the net of BFMTV this Monday, November 18.
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« Not having a conviction on your criminal record is for me a number one rule when you want to be a parliamentarian of the Republic “, explains Jordan Bardella. What if Marine Le Pen were to be convicted? “ If… with ifs… There is a call, stammers the president of the RN. If at the beginning of the year, the judges decide to convict, regardless of the conviction, there will be an appeal. The call makes you whiter than white. » So, but what if this appeal confirms the first verdict? “ But the appeal will not confirm since Marine Le Pen is completely innocent. » All you had to do was think about it.
21 amendments in five years – April 17, 2024, on RMC
The president of the National Rally is regularly questioned about his activity in the European Parliament. In this case, by a pugnacious Apolline de Malherbe. In the tradition of Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, the journalist seems to have prepared her move, as evidenced by this exchange:
« – You don't care much about Brussels…
– Ah good ?
– I don't know what you're doing: you arrive, you turn on the computer, you make a little coffee? There are not many traces… (…) If I tell you that, it is because in five years, you have tabled 21 amendments… (silence)
– Quite
– Manon Aubry submitted 3,460, François-Xavier Bellamy submitted 1,200… »
Jordan Bardella, however, finds the thread of the interview, by counter-attacking: “ No, but ma'am… Sorry, what did the 3,200 amendments from Ms. Aubry, for whom I have a lot of respect, change, but which consist of moving commas? (…) I have one of the best attendance rates of all French MEPs, with 94% voting attendance. »
Encryption in progress – April 11, 2021, on BFMTV
Then vice-president of the party, Jordan Bardella leads the National Rally list in Île-de-France during the 2021 elections. One of the flagship measures of the Lepéniste party concerns transport security: it involves posting two agents armed security at each of the region’s stations.
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Simple question from the BFMTV journalist: “How many stations are there in Île-de-France? » A silence… ” Tell me “Jordan Bardella finally replied, unable to respond to this glue. “ We are in the process of quantifying the measurement, there must be a little more than 300 I believe », he adds. No luck, it was just over 800.
Right of veto – Thursday May 23, 2024, debate with Gabriel Attal on France 2
The macronie dwelled on this performance: before the European election of June 9, the then Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, had clearly outclassed Jordan Bardella. The RN had, certainly, achieved a nice political coup with this face-to-face, the presence of the head of government facing the president of the RN reinforcing the latter in the role of main adversary of the presidential camp. Totally eclipsing the head of the list Together, Valérie Hayer, the short-lived Minister of National Education, displayed a knowledge of institutions that was lacking in Jordan Bardella, relegated to the position of a student.
« Today there is a right of veto on all subjects in Europe? », asks Gabriel Attal. A silence. Gabriel Attal displays a carnivorous smile, and continues: “ I ask you the question. Today there is a right of veto on all subjects in Europe? » « No there is no right of veto on all subjects » says Jordan Bardella. « There is a right of veto on two subjects: taxation and foreign affairs », specifies Attal. Game, set and match.
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