31 Facts About Jordan Bardella

Shortly after the election, Jordan Bardella was elected as chairman of the new Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament.

Jordan Bardella was born on 13 September 1995 in the relatively underprivileged area of Drancy, Seine-Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris, as an only child.

Jordan Bardella was predominantly raised by his single mother, a kindergarten assistant, Luisa Bertelli-Motta, born in 1962 in Turin of Italian origin.

Jordan Bardella's paternal grandfather, Guerrino Bardella, born in 1944, originally from Alvito, Lazio, arrived in Montreuil in 1960 and in 1963 married Rejane Mada, born in 1944 in La Ferte-sous-Jouarre.

Jordan Bardella's father was a business owner, living in the wealthier suburb of Montmorency, and Bardella spent weekends and Wednesdays there.

Critics mention that his father had some wealth when Jordan Bardella focuses on the social difficulties he had to face growing up in France's poorest department, a social hotspot with the highest proportion of immigrants.

Jordan Bardella received a high school diploma with distinction in economics and social sciences at the semi-private Catholic lycee Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle.

Jordan Bardella failed the entrance exam for Sciences Po, Bardella studied geography at Paris-Sorbonne University but dropped out to focus on politics.

In 2012, Jordan Bardella became a member of the National Front at age 16, and has said he joined "more for Marine Le Pen than for the National Front".

Jordan Bardella then became the FN department secretary of Seine-Saint-Denis in 2014 at age 19, making him the party's youngest ever departmental official.

From 16 February to 30 June 2015, Jordan Bardella worked as parliamentary assistant to FN Member of the European Parliament Jean-Francois Jalkh.

Jordan Bardella ran in the 2015 departmental elections to represent the commune of Tremblay-en-France.

At age 23, Jordan Bardella was designated as the first candidate on the National Rally list for the 2019 European Parliament election in France.

Jordan Bardella was called a "puppet of Marine Le Pen" by and seen as inexperienced by many voters.

Jordan Bardella is a member of the European Parliament Committee on Petitions.

Jordan Bardella was named second vice-president of the RN on 16 June 2019, and first vice-president in 2021.

Jordan Bardella became acting president of the National Rally after Le Pen resigned to run in the 2022 French presidential election.

Jordan Bardella takes the lead of the third group in the European Parliament, Patriots for Europe, initiated by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban.

In February 2025, Jordan Bardella cancelled a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference after Steve Bannon was accused of making an Nazi salute.

Jordan Bardella says that immigration could lead to the extinction of France, the French identity, French sovereignty, and "France's soul".

Jordan Bardella believes that the European Union further degrades these values, according to his demands at the EU's campaign meetings.

Shortly after the 2024 European parliament election, Jordan Bardella said he intended to abolish birthright citizenship.

Jordan Bardella wants to toughen border control to limit refugees' freedom of movement.

Jordan Bardella has stressed that environmental protection should not be left to the political left, but talks about it as a form of patriotism, stating that patriotism means the protection of the people and their environment.

Jordan Bardella has expressed personal opposition to same-sex marriage on the grounds that it will open the door to surrogacy or medically assisted reproduction.

Jordan Bardella has said he will not campaign to abolish same-sex marriage as leader of the National Rally, arguing that debate on the matter is over and that France faces more pressing issues.

Jordan Bardella advocates "cutting social services for people who illegally arrived in France" and legalizing cannabis for medical purposes.

Jordan Bardella is believed to be close to Marine Le Pen's adviser Frederic Chatillon, having at one point been in a relationship with his daughter.

In March 2025, Jordan Bardella attended a conference in Israel aimed at combatting antisemitism.

Jordan Bardella was in a relationship with Nolwenn Olivier from 2020 to 2024, daughter of Marie-Caroline Le Pen, Marine's elder sister.

In 2019, Challenges revealed that Jordan Bardella had been a part-time parliamentary assistant of the Member of EU Parliament Jean-Francois Jalkh during 2015, and that he had been identified by the EU Parliament in 2017 as being part of the assistants linked to "irregular use of the parliamentary assistant compensation".