Less than a month before the Europeans, Jordan Bardella’s list is still at the top of voting intentions, around 30%, far ahead of the other lists. The popularity of the young head of the National Rally is also at its highest. Jordan Bardella is notably in second place in the ranking of political figures in the Elabe barometer for “Les Echos”, published 10 days ago. So, should Marine Le Pen be worried about her foal’s popularity?
She repeats it throughout the interview. The boss of RN deputies has one objective: to enter the Elysée. A three-time presidential candidate, she already sees herself back in the running and considers herself the natural candidate for her camp for 2027. But what will happen if Jordan Bardella is better placed than her in the polls, a few months before the election?
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For the moment, this is not the case. “ But we are preparing for a reversal of the curves », admits someone close to Marine Le Pen. In other words, the student ends up exceeding his teacher’s voting intentions for the presidential election. But the scenario would not change: Marine Le Pen at the Elysée, Jordan Bardella at Matignon. “ Jordan may very well be better placed than Marine in the polls but as long as he is not a candidate, that changes nothing », evacuates a Marinist deputy.
And on this point, everyone at the RN agrees: young Bardella will not undermine the priority of the one who placed him at the top. Even more so in a party which has experienced several notorious betrayals in the past. And then, no one would follow the party boss, according to a member of the RN executive. “ Jordan Bardella has no entourage, no executives ready to follow him in such a risky adventure, according to a regular at strategic meetings. And then it’s not his time. Jordan’s interest is the long term! »
“It must continue to exist in the media and on the ground”
However, those around the (for the moment) undisputed leader of the party are wary. “We must continue to exist in the media, on the ground too,” at least two of his close friends recently advised him, according to our information. Should we see a link there? Marine Le Pen, very discreet in recent months, was everywhere last week. On BFMTV Monday morning, in his constituency on May 8, in Aube the next day. She even made a surprise appearance at a meeting of Jordan Bardella, in Moselle, on Tuesday evening. But his right-hand man in the Assembly, the general secretary of the RN group, Renaud Labaye, tempers: “ This increased involvement of Marine in the campaign is strategic, it is there to call for mobilization. This acceleration had been planned for a long time. »
At present, Marine Le Pen’s candidacy in 2027 is therefore not in question in the flame party. Unless she found herself prevented. The former MEP will be tried in the fall in the case of alleged fictitious jobs in Strasbourg. And she risks in particular a penalty of ineligibility: being prohibited from running in an election. In which case, anything will become possible for Jordan Bardella.
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