Jordan Bardella Details Prime Ministerial Ambitions in New Book
The 31-year-old president of the National Rally party released the volume amid a multi-week promotional tour that starts in Hénin-Beaumont and extends across the Var and Hérault departments. The publication follows a period of political adjustment for the party after judicial decisions affected Marine Le Pen’s immediate electoral timeline. Bardella acknowledges experiencing a temporary setback following those legal hurdles but maintains his focus on building a governing majority. His upcoming tour gives him a platform to test his public support directly with voters following recent media investigations into his past writings. “I may have taken a hit,” he concedes, but “I have lost none of my determination.” Resolved to “travel across France even more,” he vows to “prepare for Matignon, not in an office, but with the French people.”
Economic Deregulation and Immigration Priorities
The book outlines a strategy for the initial 100 days of an administration, though it lacks precise timelines for implementation. Key proposals include a stable pact with businesses executed through economic simplification ordinances designed to eliminate thousands of pages of regulations at the start of a five-year term. On welfare and labor policy, the text details mechanisms to offset a return to a retirement age of 62 or 60 by requiring longer contribution periods. Immigration reforms remain centered on planned referendums.
Rejecting Broad Coalitions While Assembling a Working Legislative Majority
The National Rally leader rejected any broad coalition with the political right, asserting that the prior electoral arrangement with Éric Ciotti successfully cleared necessary political barriers without requiring further expansion. The alliance with Éric Ciotti has “broken down barriers” and “opened a path,” and that is quite enough. The upcoming months require assembling a working legislative majority under the mandate assigned by Marine Le Pen, adopting a posture traditionally reserved for the head of state, as if he had kept a few chapters from an initial version that would have been titled Presiding.
There is no extended hand to the right this time around.
The text directs political criticism toward figures such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Édouard Philippe, Gabriel Attal, and Reconquête leaders Éric Zemmour and Sarah Knafo. Meanwhile, proposals from figures outside the party—such as Bruno Retailleau’s debate on chemical castration for severe sex offenders—are acknowledged as topics worth discussing.
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