According to a poll, Emmanuel Macron’s popularity rating plummeted seven points in March compared to February, with 25% positive opinion. This is the largest drop since his first election in 2017. His unpopularity record of December 2018 (23%), at the height of the “yellow vests” crisis, however, has not been reached.
Emmanuel Macron shows a sharp drop in his popularity with 25% of French people who “trust” him, a score which drops to 22% for Elisabeth Borne, the worst for a Matignon tenant since 2017, according to an Elabe poll. The Head of State’s confidence rating has lost seven points in one month, the biggest drop since his first election.
A distrust of the President of the Republic
His unpopularity record of December 2018 (23%), at the height of the “yellow vests” crisis, however, has not been reached. Similarly, distrust of the President of the Republic is increasing: 71% (+8 points), including 43% of French respondents who do not trust him “at all”. A score which “remains below the record of December 2018 when more than half of the French said they had no confidence in him at all with 51%”, notes the pollster.
22% positive opinions for Borne
Emmanuel Macron notably accuses a drop in confidence among his voters in the first round of 2022: 68%, a drop of 13 points. Elisabeth Borne collects only 22% of positive opinions (-4 points), the worst score of Prime Ministers of Emmanuel Macron since 2017, while 69% (+6 points) of the French do not trust him to face the major problems facing the country. Survey carried out by Internet from April 3 to 5 with a sample of 1,000 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, according to the quota method. Margin of error between 1.4 and 3.1 points.