A growing sling against the head of state. After the enactment of the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron’s popularity rating fell to its lowest level since 2017, at 26%. A quarter of French people say they are resigned, indicates a BVA survey for RTL published on Friday April 21.
The President of the Republic has lost two points since the end of March “finding the level reached” at the very beginning of the Yellow Vests crisis in October 2018, specifies the poll carried out after his televised speech on Monday.
Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne loses a point, with 27% of respondents saying they have a good opinion of her action, her worst result since joining Matignon in May 2022.
After the validation of the pension reform a week ago by the Constitutional Council and its immediate promulgation by Emmanuel Macron, anger still dominates for 45% of those questioned, but gives up 3 points. On the other hand, the feeling of resignation jumped 8 points to reach 24%, the highest level ever reached.
Another rebound, that of the French who want social mobilization to continue, an increase of 3 points to 63%. Nearly three quarters of French people (74%) believe that the head of state “was wrong to promulgate the law quickly”, fearing that this decision “would stir up social anger”.
They are overwhelmingly skeptical of the goals set by Emmanuel Macron in his televised address on Monday: 69% believe it has not met their expectations, 73% do not believe them realistic and 74% do not believe them likely to relaunch the quinquennium.
Survey conducted on April 18 and 19 among a sample of 1,002 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, according to the quota method, with a margin of error of between 1.4 and 3.1 points .
Consult our file: Pensions: the big bang