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A new star is taking the reins of France’s far-right National Rally party from the Le Pen family, which has dominated the country for almost 50 years.
Jordan Bardella, a 27-year-old of Italian descent, was chosen by party members as their new chief on Saturday. Marine Le Pen, daughter of the party’s notorious founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, had been slowly handing leadership powers to the photogenic member of the European Parliament.
Bardella, who grew up in Seine Saint-Denis, a rough and ethnically diverse neighborhood just outside Paris, beat Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan and Le Pen’s former partner, with a large majority of the vote in an internal National Rally online ballot, Bloomberg News reported.
