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The Macron-Borne couple starts the summer with a half-empty gauge. The president fell 4 points in the Ifop-Fiducial scoreboard for Paris Match and Sud-Radio and fell to 37% while his Prime Minister stabilized at 41%.
Emmanuel Macron is almost dry… Down sharply by 4 points (37%), the President of the Republic is already under pressure eighty days after his re-election. More than six out of ten French people do not approve of his action. 33% of them do not approve of it at all. This hostility had never been so strong since March 2020 and the start of the Covid crisis. A bad omen at the start of the mandate. Re-elected three months ago, he had to settle for 37% support among the French against 56% in 2017. Nothing seems to be working since his re-election: the head of state does not benefit from the reshuffle or the long streak international community, nor of the bill on purchasing power with its promises of checks to support the French. Emmanuel Macron is losing ground among employees (-10), intermediate professions (-4), young people (-5), craftsmen and business leaders (-7) and among Les Républicains sympathizers (-5) . It saves face among graduates (+9) and residents of the Paris region (+1). The cat is thin for this president at the start of his second term who has only 40% support on his ability to reform; 38% on his vision of the future (compared to 71% in 2017) and only 28% on his proximity to the French (compared to 67% in 2017).
“We are not in cohabitation, we are in shared accommodation”
Lucid about the political situation in the country, Emmanuel Macron does not fall into depression or the blues, according to one of his relatives. “When I was better re-elected than De Gaulle,” he regularly points out to those close to him. On the other hand, he is annoyed to see his interlocutors thinking only of 2027… As for his own political equation born of the results of the legislative elections, he describes it as follows: “We are not in cohabitation, we are in shared accommodation for the first time of the Fifth Republic.” And its Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne would be the “syndic” of this unprecedented political situation. “The executive couple is starting the summer with a half-empty gauge,” said François Kraus, director of the political/news division of Ifop.
After losing 7 points in June, the head of government is finding some oxygen thanks to her successful general policy speech. It therefore stabilizes at 41% (=), i.e. exactly the same score as Jean Castex when he left. In short: Elisabeth does not bring any added value to the president. Coming from the left, she is more appreciated on the right (47%) than her original camp (37%). It is particularly popular with seniors (+7) and rural people (+8). His situation seemed very fragile before the start of hostilities in Parliament. As for the conversations of the French, it unsurprisingly consecrates the rise in inflation (76%) in front of the return of the Covid (66%) and more surprisingly the decision of the American Supreme Court to revoke the right to abortion which is coming. in 4th position behind the war in Ukraine.