Mr Bardella lashed out at France's centrist leader in a recent interview (Image: Getty)
The French far-right has been energised by its win in last month’s EU vote, saying that the rise of the populist right shows that nationalists have changed the bloc’s “political chessboard”.
“Today, the political divide is between patriots and globalists,” Mr Bardella told France Info radio.
“It opposes those who want to continue transferring our powers [to Brussels], who do nothing to stop mass immigration, and who allow total free trade; against those who, like the RN, defend the nation, common sense, fiscal peace and the end of immigration,” he continued.
Mr Bardella echoed an earlier comment by far-right lawmaker Louis Aliot, a senior RN official, who also said that the new political battle was between “globalists and patriots” in an interview with Europe 1 radio.
In a separate interview with the news channel BFMTV on Tuesday, Mr Bardella, the rising star of the French far-right, lashed out at France’s centrist leader, accusing him of bringing together the “worst of the left and the right”.
“Mr Macron has brought together the worst of the right and the worst of the left, and it is therefore our duty to bring together the best of the right and the best of the left,” the 23-year-old EU lawmaker said, in reference to the president’s obliteration of France’s
