"It's a Prime Minister's plane": at the Paris Air Show, Jordan Bardella co-pilots Marine Le Pen

There was only one moment when Jordan Bardella got the better of Marine Le Pen, on Thursday, June 19, at the Paris Air Show . It lasted only a few minutes, just long enough for the president of the National Rally to take the controls of a Rafale, under the lenses of his communications team. Below, Marine Le Pen remained on the tarmac, to talk with representatives of the manufacturer Dassault.

But this Thursday, it was the RN MP who posed as the sole leader on board. It was she who had said a few moments earlier: "I want to see if my Prime Minister fits better in the Rafale than the current one." Beyond the swipe at François Bayrou, who seemed to be struggling when he sat down in the aircraft on Tuesday, the statement was far from trivial. While Jordan Bardella added that "ultimately it's easy to get out" when it came time to extricate himself from the plane, the MEP had to concede: yes, "it's a Prime Minister's plane."

A sequence that sets the tone for the duo's visit, the only candidate