Emmanuel Macron has the confidence of 21% of French people, the lowest satisfaction rate since his accession to the Élysée in 2017 and unchanged for a month, while François Bayrou, one of the candidates for Matignon, sees his rating rise , according to an Elabe poll published this Thursday.
In this study for “Les Échos”, only 57% of Emmanuel Macron voters in the first round of the 2022 presidential election trust the president “to effectively confront the main problems facing the country” (stable in one month), while they were 91% in May 2022, and again 74% last July.
In the ranking of personalities, Edouard Philippe (41%, + 4 points in one month), Gabriel Attal (37%, + 4 points) and Jordan Bardella (35%, + 1 point) are still in the lead, followed by Premier resigning minister, Michel Barnier, whose image is considered positive by 34% of those questioned. The barometer also highlights a strong progression by François Bayrou, who gained 8 points to reach 29%, in 7th place. Another contender for Matignon, Bernard Cazeneuve, is in 9th place with 28%, also with a spectacular increase of 5 points.
In detail, Bayrou and Cazeneuve gain respectively 14 and 11 points among Emmanuel Macron voters alone, and 12 and 10 points among left-wing voters.
Survey conducted online on December 10 and 11 with a sample of 1,000 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, using the quota method. Margin of error between 1.4 and 3.1 points.
