Jordan Bardella soon French Prime Minister? With the announcement of new early legislative elections, this is one of the possible scenarios. The RN leader gradually reveals what he could do at Matignon.
After the party’s success in the European elections, the victory of the National Rally in the early legislative elections, announced by surprise by Emmanuel Macron for June 30 and July 7, is a possible scenario. The RN appears in a position of strength for this approaching national election.
Jordan Bardella announced on Europe 1-CNews want to go to Matignon with an absolute majority in the National Assembly. “I have the ambition to be Prime Minister, at the head of a government of national unity which will be formed with an absolute majority,” he said. He believes that if the majority is only relative, the country will be in a “blocked situation” and “we would not be able to change things”. “I do not plan to be the collaborator of the President of the Republic,” he added. “If tomorrow, I do not have an absolute majority, I would not be able to vote for a reduction in VAT on gas, on fuel which I wish to boost upon my arrival in Matignon, I would not be able to drastically reduce immigration in France,” he explained.
The 28-year-old MEP therefore wants to obtain at least 289 deputies out of the 577 at the Palais Bourbon. “The difference between Gabriel Attal and me is that I do not plan to be the collaborator of the President of the Republic. I want to be Prime Minister to act and to act, I need an absolute majority” , he repeated on June 19. For this election, the president of the RN sealed an alliance with the LR. Eric Ciotti announced in a press release that at least 62 applications defending this “rally of the rights” had been submitted.
Jordan Bardella ready for Matignon?
His opponents believe that Jordan Bardella is not ready to assume such a role. For Gérald Darmanin, on BFMTV, the RN leader’s policy resembles “tango”: “one step forward, two steps back”. “He is not ready for power,” judged the boss of Place Beauvau. Same story with Edouard Philippe. The former Prime Minister takes “a doubtful look at those who claim that they are ready when they have never managed anything”, he declared on June 18 during a trip to the Marne.
President of the National Rally since 2021, when Marine Le Pen decided to devote herself to her mandate as a deputy (and to her presidential quest), Jordan Bardella could therefore become Prime Minister as early as July, a few weeks before the Paris Olympic Games . The government being responsible to Parliament, it must in fact correspond to the majority elected at the ballot box during the legislative elections. In the event of another defeat of the Macronist camp, cohabitation would therefore emerge, since it is customary in this case for the leader of the majority party to be appointed to Matignon to form a government of his color. This is what happened after the dissolution and the legislative elections lost by Jacques Chirac in 1997, which forced him to appoint the socialist Lionel Jospin Prime Minister and to live together until 2002.
Measures already envisaged for Matignon
This scenario with a Bardella Prime Minister obviously raises the question of the program and the measures that he could implement once in charge. Jordan Bardella has begun laying out the steps he would take if elected prime minister.
Economy and purchasing power
Jordan Bardella’s RN was already talking about implementing several significant measures in 2022 aimed at improving the purchasing power of the French. Jordan Bardella promises a reduction in VAT on fuel, energy, electricity, gas and fuel oil, in the first days of his action if he becomes Prime Minister. Jordan Bardella also assures that he wants to allow the increase in salaries: “I want to allow companies to increase their company’s salaries by up to 10% with the compensation that this 10% is exempt from charges”, he revealed on BFMTVFriday June 14.
The RN leader also specified that if he came to power, the RN would tackle certain tax loopholes such as that of “shipowners, which costs the State 5.6 billion euros”, he said. he explained on Europe 1. He also wants to transform the real estate wealth tax into a financial wealth tax. The MEP also promises not to increase taxes.
Retirements
He also wants to expand the existing possibilities for early departure according to the age of entry into working life and refuses any postponement of the departure age. “I will allow those who started working before the age of 20 to leave with 40 years of contributions, with a legal retirement age of 60,” he detailed for BFMTV, Friday June 14. He announced, if he came to power, a repeal of the pension reform “from the fall”.
Accommodation
The RN has also made housing one of its priorities with the objective of “fewer standards and the abolition of the timetable on the ban on renting housing that consumes too much energy”. He advocates in particular the abandonment of the ban on renting housing considered as “thermal sieves” provided for in the Climate and Resilience law but also on reserving social housing for French nationals.
Security and immigration
“Safety will be one of my first priorities,” said Jordan Bardella on BFMTV, Friday June 14. “I will vote in the first weeks of my action in Matignon on a security law which will cover penal policy, notably with the reestablishment of minimum sentences (…) I will eliminate family allowances for parents of repeat minors,” he said. he detailed.
“I will pass an immigration law which will facilitate the expulsions of delinquents, criminals and foreign Islamists, and I will abolish land law,” declared Jordan Bardella on BFMTV, Friday June 14. He affirms that French people of foreign origin who “work” and “respect the law” “have nothing to fear” from the RN.
Domestic policy
Furthermore, traveling to the Eurosatory show on June 19, Jordan Bardella promised to dissolve “all ultra-left and ultra-right organizations” if he came to power. “If tomorrow I am at the head of the country, I will have no form of tolerance towards those who engage in violence in our country,” assured the RN leader.
International politics
He also began to give his position on international issues and in particular on the question of the war in Ukraine. Jordan Bardella wants to “allow Ukraine to ensure its defense” and therefore to “have, both in ammunition and equipment, everything it needs to hold the front”. However, he refuses to “deliver in particular long-range missiles or weapons which could allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory” and to send French troops. It is clear to him that “the red line: it is cobelligerence”.
Jordan Bardella also assured that he does not intend to “call into question the commitments made by France on the international scene”. “There is a credibility issue with regard to our European partners and our NATO allies,” he declared at the Eurosatory defense exhibition in Villepinte.