“French President Emmanuel Macron’s Popularity Drops Amid Pension Reform Controversy”

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Sunday, April 23, 2023 08:41 PM

French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed that he is not sufficiently involved in advocating pension reform, according to Sky News.

And an opinion poll, the results of which were published on Saturday, showed that more than 70 percent of the French are dissatisfied with the performance of President Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity is approaching its lowest levels, in a decline mainly due to the controversial pension reform..

These were the results of the survey conducted by the Institute of Opinion and Marketing Studies (IFOP) for the newspaper “Le Journal du Dimanche”, where only about 26 percent of the participants expressed their satisfaction with the president’s performance, down two points compared to a similar survey in March..

This percentage is close to the lowest level of Macron’s popularity (23 percent), which was recorded in December 2018 at the height of the “yellow vest” crisis.“.

According to Sky News, the percentage of support recorded in the current poll is 15 points lower, compared to Macron’s popularity when he was re-elected for a second term in April 2022..

According to the poll, out of the 72 percent of respondents who expressed dissatisfaction with the president, 47 percent said they were “very dissatisfied,” up 7 percent from last month’s poll.