EMMANUEL MACRON LOWEST IN OPINION

Opinion studies worry the Élysée. While the majority and the government are committed to defending the presidential record, Emmanuel Macron remains low in opinion research.

Nearly two out of three French people (64%) believe that Emmanuel Macron is a "bad president", according to an Odoxa * poll for Le Figaro and franceinfo published Thursday February 6 on the occasion of the "1,000 days" of his entry into function. 32% of those questioned even consider him "a very bad president".

Those who have a bad opinion of him consider him 62% bad because of "his actions and the policy he led". And for 37% because of "his attitude, his tone and his communication", according to this survey with Dentsu Consulting.

The communication of the Head of State is judged particularly severely: 69% find it bad.

Regarding recent news, 73% of French people questioned consider "fairly serious" the rejection by LREM deputies of an amendment allowing 12 days of leave for parents who have lost a child.

The rejection by the Council of State of the first version of the pension reform project is also considered "fairly serious" by 57%, against 27% of a contrary opinion, the others having not heard of it.

This decline is also shared by the right-wing electorate, which criticizes the way the executive manages the conflict around pensions and yellow vests in particular.

At the top of the state, we therefore seek to communicate better. Those around him are thinking about the best way to finally get rid of the label of "president of the rich" by communicating around good results. One of the tracks therefore consists in multiplying trips in the field, by developing a presidential agenda only around good results.

But this communication is not always well controlled, sometimes because of the president himself. Last Thursday, Emmanuel Macron was in Angoulême to announce 5 billion of investment and hundreds of jobs, but opinion will have retained only his controversial photo with a t-shirt caricating the police violence.

Survey carried out online on February 5 and 6 among 1,002 people aged 18 and over, using the quota method. Margin of error from 1.4 to 3.1 points.


Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld