The French people’s confidence in President Emmanuel Macron has reached an all-time low, according to a new survey.
Only 25% of respondents to a poll conducted by the research company Toluna-Harris Interactive and LCI news said they trusted the 48-year-old leader to pursue good policies for the country.
According to the data, released on Friday, this is the lowest level since Macron took office in 2017. The president already reached this level once in October.
A total of 1,099 people took part in the online survey on December 22 and 23.
The so-called political confidence barometer is surveyed every month. Compared to November, Macron’s popularity fell by four percentage points.
His ratings have hovered below 30% for months amid growing pressure, mainly stemming from national challenges.
Despite lengthy wrangling, the highly debt-burdened country still does not have a proper budget for the coming year. This week, parliament passed a stopgap solution.
In September, the government collapsed due to protests over austerity measures proposed by then prime minister François Bayrou. Under his successor Sebastién Lecornu, a further collapse was only narrowly averted.
Confidence in Macron peaked at the beginning of his term and during the coronavirus pandemic. According to Toluna-Harris Interactive, more than 50% of respondents expressed confidence in him at that time.
The latest survey shows that Jordan Bardella, leader of the far-right National Rally party, is one of the country’s most popular politicians with 42% support.
He is followed closely by Marine Le Pen with 39%, who is considered Bardella’s political mentor.
In the French government, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin enjoys the highest level of trust this month with 38%.
Sorry but this has to be the stupidest shit survey ever (objectively doesn’t matter who the politician is) - only online?, for 1 day, N number of respondents is crap and not representative when compared to the actual number of people France has, etc., just so that someone can make an article?
Give me a break.
dpa has frequently such ‘news’ … and a ‘research’ company can spit something out, just for the headline.
I agree, this is outright bullshit by any standard.
dpa has frequently such ‘news’ …
I noticed that too. How come though? I’ve searched for dpa reviews, but it appears all legit.Sort of like a German AP, is what they say. But still,sometimes they publish trash articles.
It is a news agency. It’s a major part of the dpa (and agencies in other countries) to provide ‘basic’ news as their first clients are other media. In case of dpa, almost all German radio stations and newspapers are affiliated to the dpa, meaning they can use dpa news for their reports and don’t need own staff for this. For many of these ‘quick’ news -a research company’s presentation of a survey, a bank’s press conference about its quarterly results, things like that - it would be too expensive to maintain their own editors.
So to make that clear: I don’t want to criticize that or drag it down. Agencies fulfill an important role in our media landscape. It’s just that we shouldn’t expect deep investigative research from an agency. Sometimes they do that certainly, but that’s an exemption as it is not their main job.
Agencies fulfill an important role in our media landscape. It’s just that we shouldn’t expect deep investigative research from an agency.
Ah yes, this is what’s probably going on. Not always in-depth articles, and often others publish their news via this agency, which is then published. Tnx for confirming that.
The worst survey wo got was one where the result was accounting a participation of 49% for the second round of the presidential election. It would give Melanchon 4 million votes knowing that he got something like 8 for the first round of 2022.
The worst survey wo got was one where the result was accounting a participation of 49% for the second round of the presidential election. It would give Melanchon 4 million votes knowing that he got something like 8 for the first round of 2022.
