At just 29, Jordan Bardella has become the fresh-faced figurehead of France’s National Rally party and is now poised to inherit one of the most electorally successful far-right machines in Europe. But ...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s reaction to being found guilty of embezzlement only harms her protégé’s chances.

Or a solid French moniker that would not have marked him out. But no, Luisa and Olivier named their only son Jordan.

Bardella has positioned himself strongly to run as the party’s candidate (should it choose him) for the 2027 presidential elections.

The 29-year-old president of the RN has no links to the party’s dark past or to the Le Pen surname other than being Marine’s protégé ...

At just 29, Jordan Bardella has become the fresh-faced figurehead of France’s National Rally party and is now poised to inherit one of the most electorally successful far-right machines in Europe.

FILE - Jordan Bardella, lead candidate of the French far right National Rally for the upcoming European elections, poses before a debate at the French state owned TV channel France 2 in ...