Pension reform: Macron’s popularity at its lowest in a year – EXCLUSIVE – The HuffPost

LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP With pensions, Macron’s popularity (here October 3) drops to its lowest level in a year – EXCLUSIVE SURVEY LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP With pensions, Macron’s popularity (here October 3) drops to its lowest level in a year – POLITICS EXCLUSIVE POLL – The turtleneck does not prevent the jacket. Emmanuel Macron sees his popularity rating plummet by three points in the YouGov barometer carried out for The HuffPost at the very beginning of the month. According to the study published this Friday, October 7, the Head of State only satisfies 28% of French people… Against 31% last month. This is his lowest level since his re-election and even for a year, as you can see below. We even have to go back to the first confinement of the population, in March 2020, to fight against the spread of Covid-19, to find an even less brilliant popularity on the side of the tenant of the Élysée. At that time, Emmanuel Macron collected 26% positive opinions. Or two points less, only, than its total of this beginning of autumn. You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices. That’s not all. As the troubles fly in squadron, according to the formula, the situation is not any better for the government and the Prime Minister. The gadin is even more important, even, for Elisabeth Borne. After an encouraging return, the polytechnic loses five points of popularity and goes from 28 to 23% of favorable opinions. Difficult, under these conditions, not to see in these data, the repercussions in the opinion of the return of the pension reform. A project widely criticized in the population, as shown by the latest data collected by polling institutes. Pensions: Beware of danger According to the same YouGov study, carried out on October 3 and 4, 66% of French people are opposed to the project wanted by the Head of State, and the shift in the legal retirement age, put back on the table this fall. Worse still, more than one in two French people confides that they do not understand the objective of this text, the executive of which is struggling to want the adoption “before the end of winter” for a first implementation from the summer 2023. In detail, and this is not good news either, for the majority, Emmanuel Macron’s popularity is recording its biggest fall on the side… Of his own voters. The only ones, paradoxically, to be in favor of reform. If the Head of State logically loses sympathy on the side of the NUPES (-5%), whose leaders and supporters are upwind against his reform, he shows a drop of 10 points among the French close to his ideas. It goes from 94% of positive opinions to 84, in this segment of the population. As if the procrastination of September, and its outlet in the form of a retreat, already left traces among those who want an overhaul of the system at all costs. Emmanuel Macron did indeed want to speed up the timetable for his reform, to everyone’s surprise, before coming up against criticism from all opposition parties (even those in favor of the substantive text), from all the unions together, and even from a of his majority. This is how François Bayrou and the MoDem threatened to oppose the reform if the government decided to “go through in force. “What instill doubt about the ability of the Head of State to reform the country during this second five-year term? And that within his own troops? In this delicate context, the rare reason for hope is undoubtedly to be found on the side of Édouard Philippe. The mayor of Le Havre, first head of government under Emmanuel Macron, experienced the same air hole in January 2020, after the presentation of his reform before the Economic and Social Council. He had then lost 6 positive opinion points in one month in our YouGov barometer before quickly returning to the zenith. Or almost. A good reference for her successor at Matignon. A little less for the President of the Republic. You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices. See also on The HuffPost: You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices.