Marine Le Pen’s party hits back at Kylian Mbappé comments

Captain of French football team expressed concerns about far-right National Rally party gaining power The French football captain, Kylian Mbappé, has angered Marine Le Pen’s far-right party after expressing concerns about it winning next year’s presidential election. Mbappé, 27, who grew up in Paris’s northern suburbs in a family with Algerian and Cameroonian heritage, told Vanity Fair this week: “I know what it means and what consequences it can have for my country when people like them come to power.” Jordan Bardella, 30, the president of Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally (RN), which is polling high ahead of the spring presidential race, immediately shot back at the football star. He made a dig at Mbappé, who left the Paris Saint-Germain club in 2024 to play for Real Madrid, only for PSG to win the Champions League the following year. “I know what happens when Kylian Mbappé leaves PSG: the club wins the Champions League! (And maybe soon a second time),” Bardella wrote on social media. Le Pen told RTL radio on Wednesday she found it reassuring that Mbappé did not want her party to win, because his own strategy of leaving PSG in order to win at Real Madr