Jordan Bardella relieves Marine Le Pen as the new leader of the French far-right National Grouping party

The MEP Jordan Bardella has become this Saturday the new leader of the French far-right National Grouping party and picks up the witness from Marine Le Pen, who has decided to leave office to focus on the parliamentary activities of the formation with a view to future elections. Bardella, acting president since 2021 and considered in his principles a radical element of the party, has obtained 84.4% of the votes against the mayor of Perpignan and historic party, Louis Aliot, a percentage much higher than 67, 65% of the votes that Marine Le Pen won over Bruno Gollnisch to succeed her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, eleven years ago.Marine Le Pen will now focus on the leadership of her party’s parliamentary bloc, the most important force of Parliament since the June elections, with 89 seats. Bardella’s victory means that the party is left without a Le Pen at the forefront of the formation’s destiny since its foundation as Front N national 50 years ago, but it so happens that the 27-year-old MEP and champion of anti-immigration movements, maintains a relationship with Le Pen’s niece.