Paris (France) (AFP) – Jordan Bardella is "lying", denying the anti-Semitic comments attributed to him by Mediapart, and can no longer claim to become Prime Minister if Marine Le Pen were to win the presidential election, PS First Secretary Olivier Faure said on Friday.

Published on: 02/10/2026 - 12:42

“He lies. And so, we have a double subject here, his anti-Semitism and lying in politics. Both are not forgiving,” said Mr. Faure on RTL.

“He could have had another mode of defense, he could have said + I was young, I have since recovered, etc. + That is not what he said,” observed Mr. Faure.

Can he still go to Matignon if the RN wins in 2027? “Of course not,” replied the candidate in the Social Democratic primary.

Mediapart published Thursday screenshots of anti-Semitic messages allegedly sent by Jordan Bardella to another person on the Messenger platform in 2013.

The interlocutor of the president of the RN asked Meta, parent company of Facebook, to download this conversation on Messenger, the extraction of which was authenticated by a bailiff according to Mediapart. Any user of platforms like Meta has the possibility of requesting a history of their exchanges, according to European Union rules.

According to the online newspaper, biographical elements revealed in the conversations by the user of the account clearly prove that it was the real Jordan Bardella: mother born in Italy, mention of an interview he had given to the newspaper Le Parisien in 2013, or failure in the Sciences Po competition.

The president of the RN, who has contested the veracity of these messages since the beginning of the week, maintained his line on Thursday.

“The pseudo-evidence from Mediapart has finally come out: crude montages, obscure screenshots that can be manipulated, repeating vile remarks that I obviously never made,” he wrote on

On LCI, the national coordinator of LFI, Manuel Bompard, judged this reaction "absolutely astonishing" while "there remains little doubt" about the veracity of his words according to him.

“It’s Trumpism, that is to say that there is no longer any reality, we can no longer demonstrate anything,” he said.

“If such comments – extremely serious – were proven, Mr. Bardella should immediately resign from his European mandate,” said communist candidate Fabien Roussel in a press release.

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