A large majority of French people (73%) believe that the judicial institution ” works badly “, a figure that has never been so high for 60 years, reveals an IFOP poll for the Journal du Dimanche this Sunday, July 24, 2022.
“Negative” balance sheet for justice under Macron according to the French
65% of respondents believe that judges are not “not tough enough” an even higher figure among supporters of the “radical right” (82 %).
In terms of the fight against insecurity, the record of the President of the Republic since his election is judged ” negative “ at 69% while its action in terms of justice is judged negatively at 73%.
Two years after his arrival in government, 30% of respondents consider « positive » the action of the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti while 44% of those questioned have a bad opinion of him.
A damning report from the Estates General of Justice
This survey comes as the Minister began Monday, July 18 a series of consultations with citizens and actors in the judicial world as a whole, ten days after the handover to Emmanuel Macron of the report on the Estates General of Justice, judged “on the brink of breaking”.
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The two main magistrates’ unions, in conflict with the minister, refused his invitation.
The survey was carried out on a sample of 1,017 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, questioned by self-administered online questionnaire on July 21 and 22.
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