Not Le Pen

In France, they “legitimized” the new ultra -right leader - Zordan Bardell. Who is he and why is the relations of the “national association” with Russia

In France, a small artificial political revolution occurred last weekend. The party Le Pen for the first time in 50 years officially headed (a) not Le Pen.

A few words about the new 27-year-old chairman of the National Association party (ex-National Fleet), which all these half a century has maintained close ties with Moscow. As well as about the chances of a candidate from this ultra-right party, “finally” someday become the president of France.

I owe all the best in myself Le Pen

At the Party Congress, which took place last Saturday in Paris, the Eurodepapan Bardell scored about 85% of the vote, easily “removing” the only competitor-53-year-old Louis Alio , mayor of the city of Perpignan, ex-“Companion” Marine Le Pen. "Remove" to the ostentatious joy of Marin herself.

At the same time, it cannot be said that the new chairman is a stranger in the Le Pen family (more on this below). However, this does not cancel the fact that Bardell, especially taking into account his age, is a really strong and ambitious politician, a talented and convincing polemicist - however, he convinces first of all those who, like him, “preach” the theory of “great substitution”.

But although Bardell replaced Marin Le Pen as the chairman, but about taking the “legitimate place” of the undeniable party leader, he, as a smart person, is not talking.

He says so far about himself:

“I am a general” under the Commander -in -Chief Marin, to whom “I owe everything that I became” and which our party must prepare for the “long -expected” victory in the presidential election.

Nadezhda-2027

In the spring, Marin Le Penu herself said that the presidential campaign-2022 "A priori will become (for her) the latter." But the success in the June parliamentary elections, where the National Association (Fr. Rassemblement National - RN) won 89 out of 577 mandates (which is ten times more than in the last convocation of the lower ward), as well as hope for a new “qualitative leap” in Europe - which can “contribute” to the economic difficulties caused by the war - it is likely that it is likely that it is likely They revived the dream of taking the Champs Elysees in Marin.

Moreover, in the neighboring, although such another, Italy, Madame George Melony , who was breathing unevenly to Mussolini, had just received the authorities.

In order to better prepare for the 2027 election, Ms. Le Pen intends to concentrate on parliamentary work, heading the RN faction in the national group and making it “the most noticeable opposition force”. Bardella actually transmitted bureaucratic functions for the management of the party.

“We have reached an unprecedented level of maturity, which gives us confidence that we will replace Emmanuel Macron,” Bardell said.

Nevertheless, admitting that in addition to confidence it is necessary to make a little more efforts: “We should not only become (the main) embodiment of the opposition, but also prepare for the exercise of power in five years.”

By the way, formally, the young Ultra -righte, the last year, performed the duties of the temporary chairman of the party - at the request of Marin Le Pen, who was engaged in the presidential campaign.

But now, after the official election, which significantly added legitimacy (25 out of 40 thousand members of the party took part in the vote), Bardella has already promised to bring the party structure to a new level, engaged in "improving the training of personnel" and "strengthening ideological work", "to occupy a cultural space left too long (to the Left)." “We will increase the number of research, symposia, debate ...” - listed Bardella by the technical details of the development of the cultural landscape of France.

"Good" boy from a "bad" suburbs

Sources interviewed by AFP in the party noted the discipline of Bardella, his “political plasticity” and “interpersonal communication skills”, which first brought him to the then vice-chairman of the party, “moderate” Florian Filippo , and then with Frederick Shatiyon , an old friend Marin Le Pen, who is difficult to call the French press to neo-Nazi.

When Shatiyon fell into disgrace, Bardella went over to the parliamentary assistants to another significant functionary of National Front, and then found a new “mentor” - Philip Olivier , Shurin and chief adviser Marin Le Pen. Starting relations with Nolvenn Olivier , the daughter of Philip Olivier and Mari-Karolin Le Pen (sisters Marine Le Pen, who was elected in the party’s executive committee), Bardella, one might say, almost finally entered the family clan. (I write “almost finally”, because what confidence in her future we can talk about in the family, where the daughter excluded the elderly dad from the party.)

A very tidy, always impeccably dressed, with a well -made speech, with a Hollywood smile, Bardella loves to emphasize that he knows how to build a “best future” for the country, as he himself came out “from the lower classes”:

The son of immigrants from Italy (hence the Russian -language transcription of the surname, which is pronounced in France: Bardella) in childhood lived in a multi -storey "tower" in Drans, not the most prosperous suburb of Paris. (For comparison: Marine Le Pen was born in the family of unexpectedly rich Jean-Mari Le Pen, who also handed her the party to her trouble.)

“Every day from my window, and also when I entered the house, I saw drug dealers ... I saw groups of five-, six and seven-year-old girls who went in the Cadre,” Bardella told recently about the horrors of his childhood, explaining that this was his “traumatic” experience, which added the impression of the riots in the Parisian suburbs of 2005, and overtake him to enter into an entry into his entry into the entrance. "National Affairs" at the age of 16.

He began the chief of the party posters, and after 10 years he glued his own photo into the certificate of the party chairman.

Such a take -off of the young “upstarts”, of course, could not but cause the stormy “joy” of many functionaries who for decades spent his pants for their native party. Anonymous ill -wishers call Bardella “Frankenstein” and “cyborg” created by the Le Penal family.

By the way, the founding father of this political family, which usurizes the ultra-right clearing of France for half a century, was neither at the election of a new young chairman, nor at a month earlier celebration of the 50th anniversary of the party.

The day after tomorrow, November 9, 94-year-old Jean-Mari Le Pen was summoned to the Paris Court of Appeal on charges "inciting racial hatred." It is unlikely that he will come there, if I missed such holidays.

By the way, the racist "traditions" of the party literally the other day continued with the young chairman, Mr. Bardella. Last week, when the dark -skinned far -leaf parliamentarian Carlos Martens Bilongo spoke in the National Assembly about the “drama of illegal immigration”, Greguar de Furne deputy shouted from the place: “Qu'il (s) Retourne (NT) EN AFRIQE!” Africa, ”and“ let him (that is, deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo) returns to Africa ” - phrases sound the same in French.

The Lepenovsky deputy, accused of a racist replica, was removed from work in the National Assembly for 15 days.

But Bardella expressed support for a one -partyist, saying that "despite the misunderstanding and possibly incorrectness," the deputy of RN "was, in fact, right."

By the way, Bardella also has not only Italian, but also distant Algerian roots. Nothing, took root in France.

And more about the continuation of traditions. At the beginning of the military operations of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, in March 2022, Mr. Bardell said that "to call Putin a dictator is irresponsible." But already in September, Bardella threatened that “he would sue the diplomaticium” for everyone who “hints” in the connection of the “National Association” with Russia.

At the end of October, the journalists of the France 2 television channel issued an investigation, which states: “Documents emphasize Russia's proximity to Philip Olivier, a high -ranking member of RN and Shurin Marin Le Pen,” and at the same time the “father -in -law” of Zhordan Bardella.

The investigation mentions the name of the odious "Orthodox" oligarch Konstantin Malofeev.