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Heir Jordan: the rising star of France’s populist right - The Intelligence from The Economist

Heir Jordan: the rising star of France’s populist right - The Intelligence from The Economist

Update: 2025-11-07
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Jordan Bardella, the leader of the National Rally party, has a stonking lead in voting-intention polls. His plans, our correspondent says, would put France on a collision course with the rest of Europe. We examine a new conservation-finance mechanism being trialled in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And reflecting on the life of Dick Cheney, a remarkably consequential American vice-president.


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Heir Jordan: the rising star of France’s populist right - The Intelligence from The Economist

Heir Jordan: the rising star of France’s populist right - The Intelligence from The Economist