Jordan Bardella was elected Saturday to replace Marine Le Pen as president of France's leading far-right party, a symbolic changing of the guard that comes at a crucial time for the resurgent National Rally.
Bardella, an ambitious 27-year-old and outspoken member of the European Parliament, won an internal party vote with 85% support, according to results announced at a party congress in Paris. He becomes the first person to lead the anti-immigration party who doesn't have the Le Pen name since it was founded a half-century ago.
Marine Le Pen has said she wants to focus on leading the party's 89 lawmakers in the National Assembly. She's still expected to wield significant power in party leadership, and run again for the presidency in 2027. Le Pen lost to Emmanuel Macron on her third bid for the presidency this year, but won 44% of the national vote, her highest score yet. Two months later, her party won its most seats to date in the lower house of parliament.
"Bardella is part of a generation of young, very young, people who engaged themselves behind Marine Le Pen in the 2010s and who probably wouldn't have joined the National Rally during Jean-Marie Le Pen's era," political scientist Jean-Yves Camus told The Associated Press."Progress today is called localism. It's called defending borders.
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