Leader of the French far-right National Rally Marine Le Pen, left, and protégé Jordan Bardella during a meeting on June 2. On Sunday, French voters veered far left, knocking the party into third place behind a leftist coalition and the centrist bloc headed by President Emmanuel Macron.
Thomas Padilla/The Associated Press file photo
At 28 years old, Jordan Bardella just missed by an aspirational hair’s breadth becoming the youngest French prime minister ever. And the parliamentary leader of the country’s first far right-wing government since the Vichy era.
A spawn of immigrants who doesn’t much like immigrants, although Bardella has modified his xenophobic bona fides to incorporate “culturally compatible’’ Europeans. Son of a divorced mother who moved to France from Italy, he’s described himself as a Frenchman who is “75 per cent Italian,’’ sketchy on the genealogical details.
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