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Jordan Bardella is very proud of his Italian origins. A little less of his proven ancestry with an Algerian immigrant it seems.
Jordan Bardella: why his great-grandfather is so talked about
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Jeune Afrique journalists recently uncovered the genealogy of Jordan Bardella. It turns out that one of his ancestors is Algerian. A lineage that the native of Drancy has never highlighted.
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Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally, is a man of multiple ancestry. He indeed very widely claims his Italian origins. On the other hand, he never mentions the Algerian branch of his family.
Algerian origins, a taboo subject for Jordan Bardella
Jeune Afrique journalists recently uncovered the genealogy of Jordan Bardella. It turns out that one of his ancestors is Algerian. A lineage that the native of Drancy has never highlighted. It would indeed seem that the subject is taboo for the president of the National Rally. This origin is rather embarrassing when we know the very fixed ideas of his party on this precise subject. The only origins he speaks of with pride are those which connect him to Italy. A European country, bordering France.
An Algerian immigrant great-grandfather
The leader of the National Rally regularly considers himself “75% Italian”. Three of his four grandparents were in fact born in the famous boot. But what about the fourth? It was in fact born in France. On the other hand, she is the daughter of an Algerian immigrant worker who came to France to find a better living condition. In any case, this is what the magazine Jeune Afrique announced in its June 24 edition. Mohand Séghir Mada, his full name, is said to have immigrated to the outskirts of Lyon. He arrived in Villeurbanne in 1930 after growing up in Kabylia.
Jordan Bardella prefers to keep this story quiet
Once he arrived in France, Jordan Bardella's grandfather had a fairly typical life. He married a French woman and at the same time, he worked in a dry cleaners to provide for his family. A large family given that he had four children with Denise Annette Jaeck. Among these, we find Réjane Mada, the paternal grandmother of Marine Le Pen's protégé. A discovery that the young MEP would probably have preferred to keep silent. Such a lineage is hardly in agreement with the precepts put forward by his far-right party.
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