With a year to go before France’s presidential election, the far-right National Rally (RN) is stepping up efforts to win over business leaders. RN leader Jordan Bardella met representatives of Medef – the main bosses' union – for lunch on Monday, just a fortnight after a discreet dinner between Marine Le Pen and several billionaires.
Arriving at the lunch with the executive board of the leading employers' organisation, Bardella said he hadn't come for a "school interview" and that he expected "concrete proposals from Medef for the recovery of French business".
