Jordan Bardella formally denies Mediapart's accusations of anti-Semitism

The political class reacted strongly on Monday to a Mediapart investigation attributing anti-Semitic messages to Jordan Bardella. The president of the National Rally “formally” denies having made these comments and announces that he has instructed his lawyer to initiate “the necessary procedures”. On

Marine Le Pen immediately came to the defense of the president of the RN. Questioned during a trip to the construction professionals' fair in Paris, the candidate for the Elysée indicated that she had not "read the Mediapart article", before adding: "It seems so crazy to me that it can only be a fake, a mischief of which Mediapart has the secret".

The left wants sanctions

On the left, several leaders called for political consequences. Marine Tondelier, patron of the Ecologists and presidential candidate, believes that Jordan Bardella “must resign from all his functions”, judging the comments attributed to him “extremely serious and incompatible with any political mandate”. Manuel Bompard, coordinator of LFI, considers for his part that these declarations show “the extent to which anti-Semitism is anchored in the DNA of the National Rally” and that “the demonization of the extreme right is smoke and mirrors”.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon “formally” condemned statements which, if Jordan Bardella “pronounced them”, amount, according to him, to “conspiracy and the most absurd anti-Semitism”. The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure also reacted on X: “We understand better today why Bardella was able to say that Jean-Marie Le Pen was not anti-Semitic”. The national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel, for his part, declared: “From the FN, founded by the Waffen-SS, to today's RN, they will remain the same: anti-Semitic, racist, conspiracy theorists.”

The central block also reacts

In government, Aurore Bergé was the first to take a position. The Minister responsible for the Fight against Discrimination believes that “these writings, if proven, are extremely serious”. She adds that “their anti-Semitic and conspiratorial nature reminds those who would like to forget it of the deep nature of the extreme right.” Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot also reacted to X: “To all those with a short memory: anti-Semitism is not an accident for the RN, it is the history of this party.”

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On the other hand, Gabriel Attal and Edouard Philippe, both candidates from the central bloc, had not commented on the Mediapart investigation at the end of Monday. Between Jordan Bardella's denial, support for Marine Le Pen, calls for resignation on the left and government reactions, the publication of these accusations provoked a series of political positions.