Recently, French politics has not been at peace, first with Macron's sudden announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly, and then the first round of elections for the National Assembly will soon be held this weekend, and the competition between parties has entered a white-hot stage.
The French far-right party "National Alliance" can be said to be menacing in this competition, and as the media focuses more and more on the National Alliance, a young new face is gradually emerging and receiving more and more attention -
He was Jordan Bardella, who became the party's president at the age of 28. If he wins this election, he will once again break the record as a "post-95" generation, becoming the youngest prime minister in the history of France at the age of 29 (the current prime minister, Gabriel Attal, became the youngest prime minister in French history at the age of 34).
Early life
Jordan Bardra was born on September 13, 1995, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, northeast of Paris, in a community of immigrants and diverse cultural backgrounds.
His parents were immigrants of Italian origin. Little Baldra grew up in the suburbs north of Paris, where socio-economic conditions were more complex and crime rates were high.
Growing up, Mr. Baldra witnessed too much immigrant community chaos, and he even recounted in an interview about the "dangerous past" of drug dealers wandering outside his apartment. This upbringing gave him a first-hand understanding of the social problems in France, which influenced the political path he later devoted himself to.
"I went into politics because of everything I experienced there (in the ghetto), what happened there was not normal, and I wanted to prevent this from becoming the norm throughout France, and I didn't want the whole of France to go through my childhood," Bardra once said. ”
In contrast, Baldra's family was not poor or even relatively wealthy, as his father also ran a beverage distribution company.
But when Baldra was a year old, his parents divorced. Since then, Bardra and his mother have lived in low-rent housing in the suburbs, and on Wednesdays and weekends they are raised by their father in turn, living in a wealthy area of Montmorency.
As his childhood friends can remember, he was a video game fan, spending hours after school playing a game called Call of Duty. To that end, he also created a YouTube account called "MrJordan93201" to post Call of Duty-related gameplay videos, which has gained thousands of followers, and Gotaga, a former French pro, is also close to him.
Drop out of school
得益于家中相对富裕的经济条件,巴尔德拉在一所深受中产阶级欢迎的半私立学校 Lycée Privé Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle 完成了中学学业,并作为 Alfaccueil 协会的一员教授移民法语。
In the baccalaureate, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economic Studies with a distinction in the Très Bien grade (i.e. an average of not less than 16 out of 20).
After graduating, he took the entrance exam to the Institut Po, one of the three cradles of French political and business leaders, but unfortunately failed.
He then studied geography at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. Although he dropped out of school two years later and did not receive a university diploma, he showed a keen interest in the social sciences and politics during his university years.
At the age of 17, Bardra entered politics as a teenager and began his political career by joining the far-right party National Front (now renamed the National Alliance) led by Le Pen.
Rocket promotion
After joining the National Front, Baldera became a member of the National Front Youth League and quickly rose to prominence within the party, becoming vice-president of the Youth League two years later.
In 2015, at the age of 20, he was elected to the Île-de-France Regional Assembly as a parliamentary assistant to Jean-François Jalkh, a member of the European Parliament for the National Front.
In 2017, Baldera met the "nobleman" of his political career, Marine Le Pen, who wanted to introduce a new generation of leaders in the party, so he appointed Julián Sánchez, Sebastián Chenu and Jordan Baldra as spokesmen for the National Front, and he began to be active widely throughout the country.
As a young man himself, Bardra understands young people's ideas and ways of communicating, and knows how to use emerging social platforms to promote his political ideals.
His own Tiktok currently has 170w+ followers, which is really a big Internet celebrity in France, and he usually interacts with voters on his account to get closer.
In 2019, he was promoted again to become the leading figure of the National League in the European Parliament elections, when the newspaper Libération described him as "a puppet of Marine Le Pen". Unexpectedly, Baldra led the party to win the most votes, narrowly ahead of the Republican Forward Party led by French President Emmanuel Macron.
In the same year, at the age of 23, Bardra was elected to the European Parliament, further cementing his position in the party.
In 2021, Baldera became acting president of the National Alliance, replacing Marine Le Pen to temporarily lead the party, a position that made him a key figure in French politics.
Especially during the 2022 French presidential election, he actively supported Le Pen's election campaign. In the same year, he was elected president of the National League with 84.8% of the 26,000 votes, the first time since the party's founding that no member of the Le Pen family was elected leader. Since then, Baldra has been president of the National League.
Personal feelings
However, the young Baldera rocketed to the inner circle of the National League in less than a decade, and this rare rate of promotion has led some to wonder if he has been given special care or has been helped by internal nepotism. Especially when his emotional experience is still somewhat intriguing......
After receiving media attention, Baldela's "ex-girlfriends" were soon exposed - the first girlfriend was Kelly Betesh, a French female politician of the same age as him.
Kelly Beesh (second from left) and Jordan Bardella (second from right)
Between 2017-2018, he was in a relationship with Kerridwen Chatillon, daughter of far-right business leader and political activist Frédéric Chatillon.
Then from 2020 to the present, he is in a relationship with Nolwenn Olivier, and the woman's identity is Le Pen's niece. As a result, he has been accused of being favored by the National Alliance because of his close ties to the Le Pen family, and many media outlets have questioned whether his promotion involves nepotism.
However, although Baldera's social accounts are influential, he rarely reveals information about his personal privacy and love life on them, and the content he posts is more about political opinions, vlogs of attending events, and eating and broadcasting of various French foods.
This cautious attitude makes it difficult for the outside world to gain insight into his private life, so these conjectures can only remain at the level of suspicion, and cannot be supported and confirmed by concrete evidence.
But what is certain is that the rising star of French politics is using his youth and energy to breathe new blood into the National Alliance and attract more young voters with his excellent social influence.