November 08, 2024 12:19 GMT
FRANCE: Macron Approval Hits New Low Amid Election Fallout & Budget Woes
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President Emmanuel Macron has recorded his lowest-ever approval rating with pollster Elabe in the latest survey published in Les Echos. Macron's approval in November stands at 21%, the lowest with Elabe since his election in 2017 and the lowest with any pollster since an 18% approval rating recorded in November 2018 around the outbreak of the gilets jaunes protests.
- Macron's November approval is down 1% from October, with 73% of respondents saying that they do not trust the president. Forty-eight per cent of respondents said they do not trust Macron 'at all', just 3% off the high recorded at the peak of the gilets jaunes crisis.
- Macron appears to be bearing the brunt of public anger at the political paralysis engendered by his calling a snap legislative election after the poor performance of his centrist alliance in the June European Parliament elections.
- Approval for Macron and PM Michel Barnier (whose approval stands at 27%, down 4% since his appointment in September) has been further eroded amid continued cost pressures on households.
- Les Echos notes Macron and Barnier's approval falling amid, "a budget debate that the French are watching [at a] distance, as the discussions are chaotic and illegible, and with a dose of worry, feeling that they risk paying the consequences. "Emmanuel Macron takes the blame for everything that is going wrong, between the political situation, the deficits or even the insecurity," adds [Elabe's] Bernard Sananès."
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