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Jordan Bardella

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“Let's be honest here. Do you really think that it would be enough for us to be the likely winner of a presidential election in a country of 70 million people? Let me tell you, in any case for observers, whatever I say or do, I will always be wrong. There will always be something to criticize me for from my political opponents, my adversary or the observers. So I work calmly, I move forward trying to stay as far as possible from the criticism, and I try, with my convictions, my background and my sincerity, to convince the French that our worst enemy is time. What can still be done for France may no longer be possible in five to ten years, given the dramatic deterioration of France's economic, financial, budgetary and security situation. But as the reality, being on the front lines in politics today”
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“And after the appeal, whatever the outcome, we will continue to campaign hand in hand. If she wins her case, she will naturally run in the presidential election. And I will be her first supporter. Of course, if she cannot run, we will take our responsibilities. And I can tell you that she will still be my first supporter. But until then, I am preparing to be head of government. This can actually happen tomorrow if there are new snap elections in France. Finally, we will not give our opponents the spectacle of division, because we know that a significant part of victory also depends on our unity. So we are working together and I will most likely have the opportunity to call a just after this interview.”
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“You know, even on this point, I believe we are different from others in France. I have a relationship with Marine of great trust, deep friendship, and above all a great closeness. We are very close. We work hand in hand. I have always been her first supporter and she has always been my first supporter. Without her, I will not be standing before you tonight. You say I did not mention her. To be honest, I suspected you would ask me this question. I actually believe I have mentioned it two or three times since the beginning of the interview because I anticipated it. It is also a question that comes up very often in French media. There is indeed a legal procedure that currently prevents Marine Le Pen from running in the presidential election. I will fight alongside her so that she can win her appeal, which will take place at the beginning of 2026. Until that appeal, we will campaign together”
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“wear very early and at a young age of a number of urgent issues which today remain the existential urgencies of my country and I fight for them and I prefer that people tell me today that it is too early rather than come and tell me tomorrow that it is too late”
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“First of all, it is up to the French people to decide and choose whether they consider us credible and close to their concerns. If I believe the results of the last election and certainly the results of polls conducted by your colleagues in France, a majority at least potentially of French citizens grant us both legitimacy and the ability to address the country's problems. So I prepare every day. I work every day and I strive to listen to my fellow citizens. It is true that I am 30 years old. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about that. If all goes well, I will be 35 in five years and 40 in 10 years. It is also true that I'm not one of these leaders who's been coasting away for 30 or 40 years in French political life. But the environment in which I grew up made me aware of the”
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“I consider investment and French entrepreneurship to be key solution to the economic problems we are experiencing. Naturally, I will stand alongside our businesses, whether small, medium or large to help them recreate wealth and put the country back on the path of production. I believe that France's economy golden age is still achievable, but we must also be able to defend our economic interest. And regarding retirement, well you compete us with other European countries, I would remind you that we have a slightly higher contribution rate, but we can go into the details if you'd like.”
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“And of course there has been a dramatic decline in both the trade balance and economic activity, particularly the growth of our businesses. I believe there are two typically French problems to which I would like to provide solutions. First, there is an excess of taxes, levies, and of course an excess of regulations. Our mandatory contribution rate exceeds 46% and France is one of the countries in the world with the most confiscatory taxation. So I want to free the French economy from the constraints that currently weigh on growth. I am resolutely pro business in economic matters. I believe that France can face its economic challenges and face our debt crisis by reducing bad public spending, tackling waste, but also by being able to recreate wealth and value.”
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“First, the French economy, and I think there is a consensus on this, is currently sick. Since Emmanuel Macron came to power, we have seen the debt explode. Nearly 1,000 billion euros of additional debt since 2017, which is more debt than in the 50 years following the end of the Second World War.”
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“Begun in recent months to establish conditions that allow Ukraine to implement a ceasefire, but above all to secure the guarantees for its safety, because that is the real issue. And once again, Russia is a multidimensional threat. I believe we must be extremely cautious, and I am firmly opposed to sending troops to Ukraine, because I consider that it would contribute to an escalation, especially given that we have nuclear weapons and that President Putin has intentions whose limits no one can know.”
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“Yes, a Czech Russian bank. I remind you that no French bank, no European bank at the time had agreed to lend to the National Front. And we found this Czech Russian bank that made a loan at, I believe, 6%. You will agree that this was not a friendly loan with a bank that has since gone bankrupt. I believe that when you are tied to the Kremlin, by definition, you do not go bankrupt in Russia. My first decision as president of the National Rally was to immediately repay this loan. So we are beholden to nothing, neither money nor political interest. I have condemned and we as a party have condemned without any ambiguity Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Today, we must bring Western countries to the table. This process has long”
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“Well, I consider that Russia today represents a multidimensional threat to French and European interest. We see this in particular in Africa, in our historical zones of influence where France's influence has declined in recent years under the political and military pressures of the Wagner militias. We see it in our overseas territories where Russia systematically sides with foreign countries that claim sovereignty over French territories located overseas, and we see it regularly when French military personnel are targeted by the Russian Federation. And as you mentioned, we have seen it over the past three years at the gates of Europe. When my political party, and you mentioned Marion Le Pen more than a decade ago was forced to”
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“referendum that we will implement we will regain control of our borders and by limiting entry into French territory we will automatically limit the flow of migrants to Calais and therefore the number of people attempting to reach British shores. Now I also believe in police cooperation between the UK and France on the question of immigration not so that we bring people back to the French coast but to return them to their countries of origin.”
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“If tomorrow I were leading the government in France, as I've said, France will no longer be a country of mass immigration. And by introducing measures aimed at drastically reducing immigration into France, this would automatically have consequences on the departures of migrants from Calais in northern France towards Britain. Because I believe that part of the problem cannot be solved solely between France and England. And the issue with the British Prime Minister, just like with Mr Macron, is that they think we need to deal with the consequences rather than the causes. But I believe that the real border that would allow the UK to reduce the number of people attempting the crossing from Calais is actually in Italy, at Lampedusa, or between Greece and Turkey, which means that if we were in power, we would renegotiate all the agreements related to migration.”
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“I think the wind of freedom and patriotism is blowing across all major Western democracies. But that's politics. You're allowed to evolve. My political party has also evolved, even in its name, since it is now called a national rally. And I believe, yes, I think that Nigel Farage will be the next prime minister of the United Kingdom for a very simple reason. He is an extremely resilient man. I believe he has fought all his life sincerely to defend the interest of his country, the interest of his people, to bring a singular, free, independent voice onto the international stage, especially within European institutions. And I think that this attachment that he has to his own people, this desire to defend, work, defend security, and fight against mass immigration corresponds according to the polls, to the expectations of many of your fellow citizens. So I wish him the best, and I hope for your country that”
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“And receive free healthcare. I mean, it is abnormal that in our country one in three pensioners foregoes medical treatment because the out of pocket costs are too high, while at the same time free healthcare is offered, for example, to undocumented foreigners. Now it is true that after six months if a foreigner does not have a work contract, they will have to return to their country.”
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“Today, one third of social housing in France is occupied by immigrants. 33% of immigrants on French soil, according to Inse official French statistic institute, live in social housing. We also have what I call social window immigration, meaning people who come to our country to benefit from social aid. I say something very simple. If tomorrow you want to receive, for example, family allowances or social benefits, one of your two parents must be a French national. However, for contributory social benefits, such as unemployment insurance, there is no difficulty. If you are a foreigner in France, you pay into the system, and if tomorrow or the day after you become unemployed, you will have access to these benefits because you have contributed to them. But it will no longer be possible to come to France, for example,”
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“What you're saying here does not correspond to my program because in my concept of national priority, meaning the possibility from the French state to give priority to French citizens in access to social housing or social benefits, this priority is first and foremost for French nationals. I consider that the French without any other distinction, those who hold a French identity card because they have only one home and only one country must have priority access to social housing.”
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“For example, I'll tempt it to come here. What I will tell them tomorrow is do not come to our country anymore because we no longer have the means to accommodate such high level of immigration. Today we are the most lenient country in Europe on immigration. I want tomorrow for us to tighten the conditions for entering French territory and to become one of the countries where migration is perhaps the most strictly regulated administratively, legally and politically.”
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“So, if tomorrow I am at the head of the government, it will no longer be possible, for example, to benefit from you solely. Today, the almost automatic acquisition of French nationality means that if you are born on French soil by the age of eighteen, you are almost automatically recognized as French. This juice solely does not exist, for example, in Italy, nor in many other European countries. So we will obviously restrict the possibility of obtaining French nationality. You may ask what has made me evolved on this issue. I want to make it clear I have nothing against individuals. I can question immigration policy without scapegoating or pointing fingers at people. When France is socially generous, politically welcoming and offers opportunities, it is natural that people from the other side of the Mediterranean”
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“In a country, you come with your luggage, your language, your culture, your customs. France has a republican tradition that I defend called Republican Assimilation. Republican assimilation means do not come as you are, become what we are. And I ask nothing more from people arriving in our country than to resemble us, to live in the French way and to respect the effort made by previous generations of immigrants, including my own. Even if one can argue that European immigrants assimilate more easily, especially from Italy, since Italy and France are naturally sister nations, I want this effort of assimilation to be put back on the table.”
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“What it is precisely because I grew up in an area that experienced all the consequences of a massive anarchic, disorderly immigration policy and a constant undermining of the Republican order. Today, the areas that have received the highest levels of immigration are also the most crime-prone territories in France. These are facts. This model of a multicultural society is by nature multi conflictual, and if I got involved in politics, it was to prevent my entire country, the France I love and do not want to see disappear from looking like the neighborhood where I grew up, which is now plagued by insecurity, drug trafficking, and Islamist fundamentalism. It is important to understand that France has a very different model from the Anglo-Saxon model. The Anglo-Saxon model is based on integration, meaning that when you arrive”
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“And so, if to morrow I am at the head of my country I will fight against Islamist ideology within the framework of the law, because once again this ideology has declared war on us, and I remind you, has killed nearly two hundred seventy French citizens in barbaric attacks since 2012.”
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“Of course, and they promote not only the values of sport, but also the French flag throughout the world. And I want us to be proud of the French flag. The issue is not a religion, and let's be very clear. I will never attack a religion as a faith or as a spirituality. I have respect for religions. I am myself agnostic. I define myself as an agnostic who is a friend of Christianity and who recognizes that France inherits not only 2,000 years of monarchy, but 2000 years of Christian history. So I fully embrace the Christian values of my country and I will never attack a faith or spirituality at Ominem. However, I believe that today in our country there is a fracture between Western ways of life and the ideology spread by Islamism, which aims in large part to impose prohibitions”
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“And the Muslim Brotherhood. Because over there, when there is the slightest transgression, radical mosques are closed and organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood are placed on the terrorist list. So in reality, we are weaker against Islamism than Muslim countries themselves.”
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“The Islamism that forced me to leave my country at the end of the 20th century, I am now finding it again in neighborhoods in France, and it scares me. So yes, tomorrow we will implement measures to fight Islamist totalitarianism, political Islam, including closing radical mosques, expelling hate preachers, and placing the Muslim Brotherhood on the list of terrorist organization just as several Arab countries do. Let me give you an example since we have time, I'll tell you this anecdote. In June, after my trip to Israel, I went to the United Arab Emirates to Abu Dhabi, a major country, and above all, a major partner of friendship and stability for Europe and France in the Middle East. Our immirity friends do not understand why a great country like France is so weak in the face of political Islam.”
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“Islamic veil sometimes demanding separate hours of swimming pool. Of course, all of this is a problem for me, so yes, I am a defender of secularism, and I believe that today Islamism has become a fully fledged political project, one that does not seek to leave separately from French society, but rather to impose all its prohibitions upon it. However, I believe there are French citizens of Muslim faith who fully respect the values of the Republic and who do not want France to resemble another country or to see Sharia applied in some towns. You know, I grew up in an area with a very large immigrant population, especially from the Maghreb and Muslim majority countries. And I have heard many moderate French Muslims tell me. When I fled from Algeria in the nineteen nineties”
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“Yes, but I hear your question. Again, I do not judge people's hearts or souls, and I consider as French all those who themselves feel they belong to the great French nation and the national community. But it is true that sometimes it pains me a little, not just as a supporter, but also as a French citizen and as a patriot, to see certain football players refusing to sing La Marseillaise, to refuse to sing the national anthem. Because once again, being French also means adhering to values, adhering to ways of life. It also means recognizing equality between men and women. And it is true that today in a number of French areas and suburbs, Bonlieu, as we say, another culture is taking root, seeing relations between men and women differently, sometimes asking little girls aged five or six to wear an”
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“The French are those whose heart bled the day Notre-Dame burned. I believe that the French, obviously there are administrative considerations. But to me, being French is firstly an honor. And I believe that being French goes well beyond the administration”
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“Number out of the 500,000 residence permits that France grants each year to foreigners who come legally, only 10%, so that is fifty thousand, are issued for work as work visas. The other four hundred fifty thousand do not come to work and therefore largely depend on the community and on public finances. I believe I have a balanced common sense position, but if tomorrow I am at the head of my country as head of government, then France will no longer be a country of massive immigration and our first measure will be to trigger a referendum on immigration.”
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“And we must never forget the extremely demanding efforts made by entire generations of people from immigrant backgrounds. But it is also true that today many people arrive in our country and seem exempt from this effort. In many parts of France, we see people who are unquestionably from here, born in France, raised in French schools, but who through the messages they share on social media in the streets, through the way they challenge our history or sometimes reject Republican institutions such as the police or values like secularism clearly have their hearts elsewhere. And for me, it is this difference, this injustice that fundamentally troubles me. I believe that in a country with five million unemployed people, endemic poverty and major budgetary difficulties, France cannot welcome five hundred thousand people every year.”
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“I am indeed a product of immigration. My parents, in particular my mother, and her side of the family, came from Italy in the 1960s. And I belong to a generation of people from immigrant backgrounds who, when they arrived in France, did everything they could to become French. Not partially but fully, to embrace the national story, the language, the culture, the heritage. To blend into the national community and ultimately to become French in both heart and mind there are many people in our country in France which is you know the country I know best who made this demanding effort when coming from abroad from elsewhere to become”
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“Socialist, and because they are politically opposed to me. What matters to me now is the judgment of people, the judgment of the French, and I see many French citizens of Jewish faith placing their trust in us more and more each day. And I welcome that.”
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“But also because the way the left and the far left, which for me today are a real vehicles of hatred against Jews in our country, fuel antisemitism through their ambiguity regarding their attacks committed by Hamas on october seventh and through the refusal, especially by the French left and the far left, to recognize Hamas as a terrorized organization. Now, I am president of the National Rally. I am not president of the National Front. The political party has evolved, and I remind you that I am also a man of my generation. I was born in nineteen ninety five, and once again if some official representatives, and we also had in France supposed official representatives of the Jewish community refusing to acknowledge this strip of Jerusalem, they did not so because of their faith. They did so because they are left-wing, because their”
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“In Sudan by saying that the only French political leader to have been invited to Jerusalem in Israel for an international conference on the fight against antisemitism was myself in the year 2025. and that I have always been absolutely unambiguous on this subject. I fight all forms of hatred, all forms of racism and all forms of violence. I will always fight antisemitism because I believe today that many of our fellow citizens of Jewish faith are no longer safe in European capitals and in many of our cities. Particularly in France because the weakness of the state in the face of Islamist ideology has allowed a hatred from another era to take hold in European cities.”
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“Islamist fundamentalism. And as for history, I believe that France was in London with General de Gaulle just a few meters from here and not in Vichy with Marie Chalpeton.”
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“Let me remind you that our country was once led by a socialist, Francois Mitterrand, who received a Francisque, the highest honour of the Vichy collaborationist regime from Marichel Petin himself. That does not mean that today's socialists are necessarily potential collaborators or direct heirs of their ideology. So I am extremely cautious about how history is used. I believe that the Holocaust was one of the greatest atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Second World War, and a few months ago I traveled to Israel at the invitation of the Israeli government. I visited Yadvashem in Jerusalem because this duty of remembrance is essential. And today in France we have many French citizens of Jewish faith who vote for the national rally and who consider us a shield, particularly in the fight against Islam.”
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“An extremely difficult personal decision of expelling her own father from the National Front. I committed myself to Marion Le Pen. I am now president of the National Rally, which is not a national front. One can, of course, do politics by looking in the rearview mirror, constantly revisiting history and past provocation. I prefer to look to the future, because if we conduct this exercise of accountability, Then it should apply to all political parties”
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“Because there has never been in the DNA or in the proposal of the National Front Now the national rally, any statements or proposals intending to harm or offend groups of people in my country. However, It is true that there were remarks notably made by Jean Marie Le Pen which eventually caused a political rupture between Jean Marie Le Pen, the party's founder and Marine Le Pen, then its president On the key issue of fighting antisemitism, she judged that Jean-Marie Le Pen's ambiguities and verbal provocations were dragging the entire political movement into an unacceptable situation. And so in 2015, Marine Le Pen, as I remind you, took the responsibility.”
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“France shifts direction, many European countries will find in our country a hope for radically changing how the European Union functions.”
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“Is in an economic, social, financial, budgetary and security situation that is extremely difficult, and this means that expectations for change and disruption are extremely high among my people, among the French people. I want to save my country, but I also want France internationally and around us to reconnect with its vocation as a civilization nation, that is a country capable of defending its interest on the European stage while also being able to work with European partners. And so it is natural that I should also, when meeting the foreign press or business leaders who operate abroad, come to present the project I am carrying for my country. I am aware that France has a special role in Europe, and for many European peoples”
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“Yes, it is in any case about fighting against the caricatures made of my political movement, of my ideas, of its members, activists and parliamentarians. I lead a political party, the national rally, thanks to the trust given to me by Marine Le Pen. And it is today the leading political party in France. We have the largest group of MPs in the National Assembly. I personally chair the third largest group in the European Parliament, which is the main opposition party within the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels. And today, in every poll and every voting intention published in France, we are the party predicted to win the next legislative elections and the next presidential election. So my responsibility is obviously to bring the French people together and to present the country with a project of national recovery. Because my country from”
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“And if to morrow I am leading my country with my political movements, I will ensure that France regains control of its immigration policies and that we put an end to thirty years of laxity in this area.”
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“I grew up in a region, we may talk about it later, called Sensanni, an area that receives a very large amount of immigration, particularly from Africa and North Africa. And of course, when you open the floodgates of immigration, then you bring in people, and through family reunification, you bring in even more people who also come with their culture, their language, their customs, and their way of life. Look, I do not see France as a country that must be closed, but I believe that we must control our immigration. And I believe that tomorrow and the day after France should no longer be a country of mass immigration. Of course, we must be able to welcome people who come to work, to contribute to our national story and to the country's economic wealth. But it is true that we can no longer be the most lax country in Europe.”
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“Yes, to a large extent, I shared that assessment. First of all, I am pleased that France and Europe, far beyond their borders, are capable of speaking to the hearts and consciences of people around the world. You know what struck me? It was during one of the most dramatic events our country has experienced in the past decade, the fire at the Notream Cathedral in Paris. This tragedy moved people and consciences all over the world. And I believe that France is truly itself when it can speak in its universal vocation to all hearts and all minds across the globe. I believe that it is the beauty of our civilization. Western societies and particularly the French society.”
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“Parties around the world, and I welcome that with a certain goodwill. But as for me, I wish to defend the interest of my country tomorrow. I do not like this vassalization of Europe towards any great power. Ultimately, my project is both the greatness, the freedom, and the independence of France and of Europe.”
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“Listen, I believe there is a wind of freedom and national pride blowing across all major Western democracies. And it is true that President Trump in the United States was an expression of that current stream of ideas, of that great popular movement. And he managed, I think, by appealing to American pride and the ambition to make the United States a great power again, greater than it already is, around the concept of America first to reconcile the working class, the American middle class and part of the entrepreneurial elite. And he has done this, I believe, with a certain degree of success. I respect leaders would defend their country's interest. What I criticize French leaders for and European leaders more broadly is for not defending their country's interest strongly enough. It is true that Trump was giving a nod to patriotism.”
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