Jordan Bardella, the French hard right’s young hope
After Marine Le Pen was barred from running for president, the 29-year-old may have to take her place
HIS PARENTS, of Italian origin, might have chosen a name that tied him to the ancestral homeland. Or a solid French moniker that would not have marked him out. But no, Luisa and Olivier named their only son Jordan. “Seriously? Are you really called Jordan?” asked an incredulous party hack he met in Paris. “Why,” he asked his mother in exasperation one evening, “did you give me this name?”
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