France’s new Prime Minister Francois Bairro is taking office with the lowest popularity rating ever recorded, with 66% of French people disaffected, according to a poll published today.
Just 34% of respondents said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the new, centrist prime minister appointed on December 13, according to the Ifop-JDD survey in the Journal du Dimanche.
Ifop, which has been conducting polls for decades, said that until 1959 and the appointment of Michel Debret, no French prime minister had garnered such a low popularity rating immediately after taking office.
Bayrou was appointed prime minister by French President Emmanuel Macron after long talks to find a successor to Michel Barnier, whose government collapsed following a vote of impeachment just three months after taking office.
Bayrou is the sixth prime minister to take over since Macron was first elected to the presidency in 2017, and the fourth in 2024. He hopes to form a government in the coming days in order to draw up a budget, but it will not be easily approved by the French National Assembly.
An indication of the difficulties he is going to face is the dissatisfaction rate he is gathering, which is much higher than that of Barnier in September 2024 (55%), Gabriel Attal in January 2024 (46%) and Elizabeth Bourne in May 2022 (43%).
The poll was conducted online from December 11 to 18 among a sample of 2,004 people aged 18 and over.
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