Alone on stage, Jordan Bardella launches his new book a stone's throw from the Élysée Palace
In front of his mentor Marine Le Pen and his ally Éric Ciotti, the leader of the National Rally presented his second work , What the French Want, on Tuesday evening on the stage of the Marigny Theatre in Paris.
According to those close to Jordan Bardella , the coincidence was pure chance. Nevertheless, it was just a stone's throw from the Élysée Palace, at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris, that the leader of the National Rally launched his second book, What the French Want (Edition Fayard), on Tuesday evening. A lavish setting where the former Minister of Justice and fervent opponent of the National Rally, Éric Dupond-Moretti , has been performing for several months, his face plastered across the front of the building.
On these same stages, Jordan Bardella also tried his hand at performing alone. In a very different register, at the famous Parisian palace, the Westin, where he unveiled, almost a year ago, his first confessional book , Ce que je cherche , from the same publisher. This time, Marine Le Pen 's designated heir apparent was careful not to speak first. On the giant screen of the darkened theater, testimonies from French people paraded first under the gaze of the almost full room. From the farmer to the magistrate Pascale Pierra - now an RN MEP -, from the fisherman to the BRI police officer...
Skip the adA glimpse of this new book that Jordan Bardella himself describes as "different" from the first, more autobiographical and in which he had almost given in to introspection. When the lights finally come up, the thirty-year-old in a tie appears, microphone in hand, alone in front of the audience. There are, of course, the usual thanks, then the more personal ones addressed to his mentor Marine Le Pen, seated in the front row next to her ally Éric Ciotti .
"I took to the road for several months alone, without journalists, with only a notebook for luggage," he told the entire Le Pen audience, including Sébastien Chenu, Jean-Philippe Tanguy and Marie-Caroline Le Pen. From this itinerary of several months, the nationalist MEP, who built part of his popularity on TikTok, emerged convinced that there are still "other ways to speak to the French beyond social networks and lecterns" . Enough to refine his stature as a presidential candidate and "plan B" for the RN, while the political future of Marine Le Pen - prevented at this stage by a sentence of ineligibility - will be decided on January 13 during her appeal trial.
"I'm preparing for power, I'm working on it," he told Le Parisien , a few hours before going on stage. In the meantime, Jordan Bardella will begin a new promotional tour across the country this Wednesday, as he did for his first book. Barely off stage Tuesday evening, he was already able to warm up by signing hundreds of books, freshly purchased by his supporters, until late in the evening. Even if it meant missing the glasses of champagne and the petits fours served a few meters further, in the back room where, among others, the advisors and parliamentarians of the party at the flame met.
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