Corsica’s nationalists scored an emphatic victory in the second and decisive round of voting for the new Assemblée de Corse yesterday. With 56 per cent of the votes won, Giles Simeoni’s pragmatic alliance of autonomistes and indépendentistes will have an absolute majority of seats in the new body, which replaces two departmental councils and a […]
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Macron support steady as French reform process takes hold
France’s two main monthly opinion ratings surveys were released today, and they will be re-assuring for both President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. Despite much controversy surrounding the En Marche! government’s labour, education, taxation, budgetary and policing reforms, there is only the smallest downward movement in French voters’ approval of the two men’s […]
French government turns the corner with Elabe
Today’s monthly political ratings survey from Elabe brings good news for both President Macron and PM Philippe as their approval ratings move up after having fallen over a politically difficult summer. In answer to Elabe’s question ‘do you have confidence or not that the President can tackle the problems facing the country?’ some 40 per […]
Macron slows ratings fall with IFOP
French President Emmanuel Macron sees the fall in his approval ratings slowing sharply in yesterday’s October survey from Ifop-Fiducial for Paris Match and Sud Radio – after a summer of steep decline. Meanwhile his Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has stabilised his ratings in modestly positive territory with no movement compared to September’s poll. […]
Another downward plunge for Macron’s ratings
Ifop’s monthly poll for the Journal du Dimanche, out today, holds more grim reading for French President Emmanuel Macron. As the country gears up for the political rentrée or return to business, he has lost a staggering 28 points on the poll’s net satisfaction measure. For the first time since his election, the En Marche! […]
Hollande comparisons start to dog Macron as approval ratings slide
During the French Presidential campaign Emmanuel Macron’s opponents accused him of being ‘Francois Hollande 2’ – a charge that failed to stick as he swept into the Elysée Palace. But the comparisons have now returned with a vengeance as the new President faces approval ratings that are below his those of his predecessor after three […]