Jordan Bardella: The 23-year-old French far right boy wonder
Bardella was raised by a single mother who struggled to make ends meet as a teaching assistant in the troubled Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, known for large ghettos of descendants of immigrants from North Africa and other parts of that continent.
At the barrel-maker's workshop, Bardella wandered affably around with the owner, listening with apparent great interest to the minutiae of the craft. He lamented that"traditional artisanal jobs are not valued anymore," when the owner told him he is having a hard time recruiting.The owner's struggles are not because the traditional French business of Cognac-making is in decline. Far from it.
While Bardella will have instant stature as one of Le Pen’s key lieutenants, he will also have to vie for influence with the AfD’s Jörg Meuthen, and other sharp critics of the EU with long experience in Brussels, including Polish MEP Ryszard Legutko, who is a leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.
The region of Cognac is not in the post-industrial wastelands that have traditionally been far-right hunting grounds. Emmanuel Macronhere in 2017. Nevertheless, much less stigma seems to surround the far-right party than it did a few years ago. People protest against a National Rally campaign meeting in Saint-Ebremond-de-Bonfosse, France on February 9, 2019 | Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images
A couple of hours earlier, some local people were unaware of the big political event about to take place in their midst. But some expressed the same grievances about the lack of public services and unease about immigrants that the National Rally has campaigned on. Her husband agrees with some of the far right's ideas, especially when it comes to immigration."When I was a child in school here in Mer, Turkish immigrant kids would call me a pig," he said."I didn't understand then why they did, but as I grew older I realized some of them don't want to mix with us." Nevertheless, he said, he has given up on politics and no longer votes.
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