Macron’s popularity climbs five points for the start of the school year – EXCLUSIVE – The HuffPost

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POLICY – Some re-entries are less difficult than others. Emmanuel Macron, back in business since the last week of August, begins this presidential year with a marked increase in popularity in our monthly barometer exclusive published this Friday, September 3, in partnership with YouGov.

According to the polling institute, 33% of French people have a favorable opinion of the President of the Republic, against 28% last month. An almost unprecedented rebound, which allows it to regain its popularity of the month of March 2021, when he refused to pronounce a general reconfinement of the population, As you can see it on the graphic below.

Logically, the dissatisfied with Emmanuel Macron are receding. They are now only 57% to have an unfavorable opinion of its action, a little more than one in two French people, against 63% in August. The popularity rating of the Prime Minister, it capped at 29%. (-1 in one month)

The anti-pass in the retro?

What to give air to the tenant of the Élysée? The extension of the sanitary pass, and the lasting but weakening social movement that it has engendered no longer seem to have a hold on it anyway. Emmanuel Macron effectively erases the little three-point gimmick his popularity suffered in August, after the entry into force of the famous sesame for daily activities, and earns two more this month.

At the same time, the demonstrations of the “anti” lose in intensity over the weeks and the epidemic indicators, still worrying in certain regions, start to fall again.

The visionaries are therefore gradually turning green for the President of the Republic, who intends to occupy the field in this return, as if he were in the countryside. Especially since its popularity rating climbs with all political sensibilities … with the exception of the center, (-2 points), the camp which is acquired to him.

The moderate right as reinforcement

In detail, Emmanuel Macron records an impressive increase among supporters of the moderate right. They are 48% to approve its action in our barometer of the month of September, whereas there were only 23% to do so during the previous one. In other words: the share of favorable opinions towards the head of state has more than doubled, in a month, among French people close to the Republicans.

His firm speech on migratory flows in connection with Afghanistan, although widely criticized by the left, has undoubtedly found a certain echo among these voters who make it a primordial question.

A camp that political leaders could start to worry about. While Emmanuel Macron unfolds his sovereign subjects, the right is still stuck in his pre-campaign: Xavier Bertrand, the favorite, does not want to hear about the primary that his competitors are calling for. Difficult, in this context of scattering, to initiate a dynamic.

In our September barometer, the president of the Hauts-de-France region loses three points of positive opinions (13%). It ranks just ahead of its counterpart in Île-de-France, Valérie Pécresse (12%), who also leaves one on the way, compared to last month. There are some re-entries that are less easy than others.

Survey carried out from August 30 to 31, 2021 among 1081 people representative of the national population aged 18 and over, according to the quota method. In partnership with: