“If you have to endorse the unpopularity of the country, I will endorse it.” According to a new “L’Opinion en direct” poll conducted by the Elabe Institute for BFMTV, 61% of French people feel that the statements made by Emmanuel Macron during his interview on Wednesday will provoke more anger in the country, in the midst of a crisis. policy linked to pension reform.
On the contrary, a handful of respondents considered that the words used by the president during this speech lead to appeasement (11%). At the same time, 7 out of 10 French people (71%) who saw, heard or heard about the interview with the President of the Republic did not find it convincing, according to this same Elabe survey.
65% of the French think he is a bad president
The popularity of the head of state has been affected since the start of the pension reform sequence and the protest movement around him: only 24% of the French believe that Emmanuel Macron is a good president. On the other hand, 65% consider that he is a bad President of the Republic.
His personality is pointed out by the people questioned by our survey: 69% of the French polled find him arrogant, they are so arrogant to find him authoritative. Finally, Emmanuel Macron worries 61% of those questioned.
In addition, many of them do not trust him to carry out the country’s large projects, both in terms of value sharing (78%) and purchasing power (77%), climate (73%) or full employment (71% ). Added to this is the regret of 19% of Emmanuel Macron’s voters in the first round of the presidential elections for having voted for him.
The French hostile to reform but the least sustained challenge
A president criticized, like the text that he considers necessary for the survival of the pension system. 72% (+3 points compared to the latest Elabe survey) of the French consider the government reform unfair, 63% (+5 points) consider it ineffective in guaranteeing the sustainability of the pension system and 56% ( +4 points) believe that it is not necessary.
If the majority of the French want the mobilization to continue (65%) or even intensify (44%), this trend is downward compared to the previous poll by Elabe for BFMTV.
Sample of 1037 people representative of residents of mainland France aged 18 or over. The representativeness of the sample was ensured according to the quota method applied to the following variables: sex, age and profession of the interviewee, prior stratification by region and agglomeration category. Consultation on the Internet on March 22, 2023. Field made entirely after the television interview with Emmanuel Macron in the news at 1:00 p.m.
Source: BFM TV
