Jordan Bardella finally assumes his role as plan B for the 2027 presidential election – Liberation

It mixes the advantage of not having the name Le Pen with the disadvantage of not carrying the name Le Pen. It was a secret of a polichinelle, but Jordan Bardella evokes this Saturday, April 26 openly for the first time in the Parisian : He should be the candidate of the National Rally (RN) in the presidential election of 2027 in the event of confirmation of the conviction of Marine Le Pen on appeal.

If the possibility of a bardella candidacy is not surprising information, Party legal troubles And Le Pen spectacularly accelerated the process. Some people think that the president of the RN would not be ready. « I work and prepare myself. What is expected of a potential Prime Minister as a presidential candidate, these are qualities that are not very similar, answers him to Parisian. The function is different. But the ability to bring together, listen, understand the French are missions that I have also done mine for several months. ”

Also questioned on the possibility of seeing him replace Marine Le Pen in the event of new anticipated legislative elections, Bardella sweeps the idea of ​​the hand. In any case for the moment. « It is not planned when I speak to you, that I am a candidate for anticipated legislative potential. »

It remains to be seen whether Bardella is able to seduce a more traditional RN electorate, which could find it a little too young, a little too soft, not enough national front. “I will not invent forty years of political life. The French know me, I have been doing politics for fifteen years, seven years that I do at high level ”he advances. In any case, the smoothing plan of the far right party continues: Jordan Bardella has just turned an episode of the program of Karine Le Marchandle An intimate ambition On M6.