Purchasing power, health and debt. Surveyed when the new government had just been appointed, the French were very clear about their daily concerns. They want to know how they will end the month, worry about being able to receive proper care and fear the repercussions of the economic crisis on their daily lives. These are essentially the same results as three months ago, when Michel Barnier took office. The ranking then gave: Health, purchasing power and economic situation of the country. Very far from immigration, security and delinquency which make politicians talk so much on TV sets.
However, they who are so fond of polls when it comes to knowing whether or not they are popular, eligible or presidential, would do well to take a little interest in these studies which all, successively, are of the same content. It is the culmination of seven years of macronism: unemployment is low, but the country is increasingly precarious. While they continue to tighten their belts, the French see inflation explode, wages stagnate and no longer know how to make ends meet.
It is this concern that François Bayrou will have to respond to. But can the presidential camp, which has managed, for the moment, to cling to power, really find the solutions? Until now, he has been unable to do so.
