Jordan Bardella


Jordan Bardella is a French politician who has served as a Spokesman of the National Rally since September 2017. He was the lead candidate of the National Rally in the 2019 European Parliament election in France. He also served as president of the Front National de la Jeunesse, which was later renamed Génération Nation.

Biography

He was born on 13 September 1995 in Drancy into a modest family of Italian origin.
In 2012, he joined the National Front, which was renamed National Rally in 2018. Alongside Sébastien Chenu and Julien Sanchez, he became a party spokesman after Marine Le Pen's defeat in the 2017 presidential election. The following year, Le Pen also appointed him as president of the Front National de la Jeunesse which later became Génération Nation. He is close to the Italian politician Matteo Salvini.
At the age of 23, he was designated as the first candidate on the National Rally list for the 2019 European Parliament election in France.