Jordan Bardella’s romance with an aristocratic influencer is complicating his working-class pitch.
By MARION SOLLETTYin PARIS
Illustration by Natália Delgado/POLITICO
A royal title. A jet-setting lifestyle. A multimillion-euro offshore fortune.
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella’s glitzy romance with an Italian princess has handed his critics an irresistible line of attack: that the National Rally’s champion of the working class is getting dangerously close to the very elite his party claims to oppose.
