PARIS (AP) — If a French appeals court on Tuesday prevents Marine Le Pen from making what would be her fourth and likely strongest tilt for the country’s presidency, she has groomed a replacement who has already started to try on her mantle for size.
But Jordan Bardella is no carbon copy of the anti-immigration, populist leader who got closer than ever to taking the reins of Europe’s largest country in the last of her three previous presidential campaigns and has steered her party’s growth in popularity.
