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Opinion. If the party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella reaches the Élysée in 2027, the break could be strategic as well as ideological. But no one can really measure its extent as the party remains without a credible foreign policy doctrine or program.
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Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella during a meeting of the National Rally on the occasion of May 1, in Macon. REUTERS
The uncertainty linked to the verdict of July 7 undoubtedly plays a role, but one year before a possible shift, in international matters the vagueness of the National Rally seems constitutive. Jordan Bardella first of all embodies a strategic emptiness – no articulated reflection on France as a European power, no body of work on deterrence, alliances, multilateralism.
He tries to compensate for this with a pragmatic “business friendly” image, reassuring economic circles, by giving himself the air of a French Meloni: firm on cultural issues, but reasonable on the rules of the European game. Marine Le Pen, more faithful to the DNA forged by her father, maintains a deliberate fog over the extent of the break she would like with Brussels. His program remains that of a France in permanent face-to-face with Brussels, where the Union is only a straitjacket whose clutches must be loosened.
