Emmanuel Macron assumes his statement on the unvaccinated, and this could be beneficial to him in the polls … According to a study by the Ipsos institute, the current President and candidate for the Elysee 2022, was credited with 26% voting intentions in the first round.
For lack of having made him lose the confidence of certain French people, Emmanuel Macron’s “little phrase” on the contrary made it soar in the polls… The President accepted his comments made in Le Parisien on January 4, where he said he wanted “piss off the unvaccinated”. “We can be moved by forms of expression which seem familiar, which I fully assume”, he declared on Friday, January 7, during a press conference at the Élysée Palace, alongside the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. A little sentence that shocked but which does not seem to affect him for the race to the Élysée 2022.
Saturday January 8, franceinfo received Brice Teinturier, Deputy CEO of the Ipsos institute, which conducted the survey on voting intentions in the first round, published the day before. “Things are still very tight, against Emmanuel Macron who dominates the first round”, explains Brice Teinturier, speaking of the right. When we ask the political scientist if the words “piss off” them “Unvaccinated” lost points to Emmanuel Macron, Brice Teinturier says: “No, that doesn’t seem to have affected his voting intentions. It’s 26% today, it was 25% last month. We are within the margin of error but, at the very least, there is no decline after his declarations, the survey having been carried out the day after and two days after his declarations ”.
Where are the other candidates in the race for the Élysée 2022?
A survey that falls at the right time, therefore. “It allows him to mobilize his camp well, because we can see very clearly that compared to the vote in 2017, Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 voters are again referring to him in voting intentions, up to 68% ”, confirms Brice Teinturier. When Franceinfo asks him about the voting intentions for Éric Zemmour, for example, the representative of the Ipsos institute replies: “Something interesting is happening. Eric Zemmour’s decline is now continuous : 15% during the first measurement, 14% afterwards, 12% today. We have a continuous erosion which allows Marine Le Pen, with 17% of the voting intentions, to maintain ”.
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