Less than a week after the second round of parliamentary elections that gave him a handsome majority, the first signs that new President Emmanuel Macron’s halo may be dimming appear in today’s monthly Tableau de Bord Politique from Ifop/Fiducial. Macron’s net approval rating has fallen sharply from an extraordinarily high +36 points in May to […]
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Election Result: French National Assembly 2017 (2nd round)
As expected, new French President Emmanuel Macron won a convincing parliamentary majority for his République en Marche (REM) movement in yesterday’s second round run-off election. Together with his centrist MoDem allies, Macron will command 350 of the 577 National Assembly seats. Importantly REM itself took 308 of these, enough to insure the Presidential majority against […]
Election Result: French National Assembly 2017 (1st round)
Emmanuel Macron’s extraordinary political journey continued in yesterday’s first round elections for France’s 577-member National Assembly. The new President’s République en Marche (REM) movement strolled to its predicted victory, winning 32 per cent of the votes – very much in line with the final opinion polls of the campaign. In next Sunday’s run-off ballot, REM […]
Election result: French Presidency, second round
Emmanuel Macron (En Marche!) completed his extraordinary journey from socialist economy minister to independent centrist President on Sunday, strolling into the Elysée Palace with almost two-thirds of the vote in the second round run-off against the National Front’s Marine Le Pen. It was a victory anticipated universally by commentators and the opinion polls, which managed […]
Election result: French Presidency, first round
With the addition of ballots from French citizens overseas, the final results have now been released nearly a day after the nation finished voting in the most unusual first round Presidential contest seen in the 58 year life of the Fifth Republic. The result – the qualification of centrist Emmanuel Macron and right-wing populist Marine […]
Final French Presidential polls before Sunday’s first round vote
Ahead of the legal ban on opinion polls that comes into force at midnight tonight, six of France’s eight pollsters have issued their final research today. Only one of the six – Odoxa’s survey – had fieldwork entirely carried out after the terrorist attack in Paris on the night of Thursday 20 April, the same […]