{"id":54716,"date":"2025-04-27T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54716\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T12:14:10","slug":"frances-bardella-confirms-2027-presidential-bid-if-le-pen-is-barred-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54716\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Bardella confirms 2027 presidential bid if Le Pen is barred \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Rally President Jordan Bardella confirmed on Saturday he will run in the 2027 French presidential election if his mentor Marine Le Pen \u2014 the three-time candidate and front-runner whose ambitions have been derailed by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-far-right-national-rally-marine-le-pen-court-verdict-embezzlement-case-guilty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embezzlement conviction<\/a> \u2014 is barred from taking part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no ambiguity about the fact that Marine Le Pen is my candidate, but that if she was prevented [from running] tomorrow, I think I can tell you that I would be her candidate,\u201d he told French publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/politique\/jordan-bardella-si-elle-est-empechee-je-serai-le-candidat-de-marine-le-pen-pour-2027-26-04-2025-NRBRMBWVBNAZNL6JR7JQWHZQQM.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Parisien<\/a> in an interview published Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bardella, the 29-year-old chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/bardella-le-pen-european-parliament-payroll-staff-assistant\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/bardella-le-pen-european-parliament-payroll-staff-assistant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriots for Europe group<\/a> in the European Parliament, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/jordan-bardella-french-president-far-right-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has long been seen as the heir-apparent<\/a> in the National Rally but had not openly endorsed his backup role in the presidential bid until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Rally President Jordan Bardella confirmed on Saturday he will run in the 2027 French presidential election if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[33,2000,299,36,29101,38,42,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-54716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-election-2027","13":"tag-french-politics","14":"tag-jordan-bardella","15":"tag-marine-le-pen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114409875940959651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}