In response to Emmanuel Macron’s speech at La Sorbonne, Jordan Bardella held a press conference a few hours later, this Thursday. An event that didn’t go exactly as planned.
Hard blow for the National Rally. If the party is still at the top of voting intentions in the next European elections, 31% according to the latest Harris Interactive – Toluna poll for Challenges, M6 and RTL, far ahead of the majority list led by Valérie Hayer (16%) , and that of the PS-Place publique, defended by Raphaël Glucksmann, several cases have disrupted the Lepéniste party in recent days. Even before the press conference organized by Jordan Bardella this Thursday.
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Once on the RN list for the European elections, the departmental representative of the National Rally in Mayotte, Saidali Boina Hamissi, who described Vladimir Putin as a “visionary” and who also described the inhabitants of “vermin” and “cockroaches”. A neighborhood in Mamoudzou targeted by a police operation was finally dismissed after his remarks were revealed. Then, Tuesday April 2, The world And franceinfo revealed that number 3 on the RN list for Europeans, Fabrice Leggeri, was the target of a complaint for complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in torture. Finally, the assistant of an AFD MEP was arrested this week for spying for China. Enough to disturb the head of the list, Jordan Bardella, when giving his speech supposed to respond to that of Emmanuel Macron on Europe?
Bardella leaves the room without responding to journalists
Thursday April 25, Jordan Bardella held a press conference, after the speech given by the President of the Republic from La Sorbonne, the same day, late in the morning. Unfortunately for the RN, everything did not go as planned. Indeed, according to information from BFMTV, the press conference started late, although the journalists had received information, earlier in the day, to arrive at 4 p.m. The president of the National Rally began his press conference at 4:52 p.m.
Problem, after a 20-minute introductory speech during which he “stumbled over many words” according to BFMTV, Jordan Bardella left the room at the end of his speech, without taking the time to answer the journalists’ questions. An exercise left to his campaign director, Alexandre Loubet. Later in the evening, a member of the team of the head of the RN list for the Europeans confided to BFMTV that the main person concerned had “not felt well and that he was not supposed not to respond himself to questions from journalists. He allegedly went to lie down in his office to take a nap and was visibly “not happy with himself” in the words of his close guard on Thursday.