Can France really move on? Since the validation of the pension reform by the Constitutional Council, each trip by members of the government has been accompanied by concerts of saucepans. A way for protesters to make their voices heard other than in the processions, but also to denounce a political discourse deemed inaudible. “For the moment, there is a kind of space time. The French, and it is quite striking, have not closed the pensions page”, notes on Europe 1 Frédéric Dabi, general manager of Ifop opinion. , guest of Sonia Mabrouk this Monday.
“He was rather withdrawn”
For the latter, the president lacked proximity and pedagogy. “He did not make a big show, a great moment of pedagogy, a bit like François Mitterrand at the Sorbonne before the Maastricht Treaty. He was rather in the background, overhanging, we only had snippets, small sentences And the absolute monarch is the idea of the one who imposes a reform that the French today do not want, “he analyzes.
Emmanuel Macron himself concedes this in his interview with the Parisian : he should have “get more wet” in the debate on pension reform and now wishes to “reengage in the public debate”.
“For many French people, it’s him”
And if according to another Ifop poll nearly three out of four French people are dissatisfied with the head of state, Frédéric Dabi specifies that the base of support for Emmanuel Macron is strengthening. His supporters underline his “courage” and his “firmness” because “he did not give in to the street”.
“However, we saw that at the time of the Yellow Vests, Emmanuel Macron was presented as a bulwark against disorder, against chaos. But this logic of opinion, despite the violence, does not work. For many French people, the mess, it’s him”, concludes the opinion director of Ifop.