The ‘yellow vests’ in 2018, the covid crisis between 2020 and 2022 and lhe war in Ukraine this year has given France’s president a breakEmmanuel Macron.
It may sound strange, but despite the fact that the policies applied in your country have upset a good part of the electorate, the truth is that Macron has consolidated an image of ‘crisis president’ which has given him a boost in the polls, a month before the French presidential elections.
The current head of state, who made his new candidacy official ten days agoon the verge of the legal limit, has risen between 6 and 7 points since the resurgence of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, almost doubling the percentage of its immediate competitor, the far-right Marine Le Pen.
With 30.5% of voting intentions, according to the latest Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll, the French president would go to the second round without any surprises, well ahead of Le Pen and Éric Zemmour (13.5%) – another far-right candidate. For the general director of Ipsos, Brice Teinturier, the progression of Macron, who in popularity polls has more negative evaluations (60%) than positive ones (40%), is due above all to an accumulation of crises, the last of them the war that is being fought on Ukrainian territory.
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“We see a certain restlessness of the French that can benefit him, but above all there is recognition of Macron as a president who has the capacity to face crises,” insisted Teinturier, in statements to the newspaper Le Parisien. However, Marine Le Pen, Macron’s main adversary in his new claim to repeat in the presidential chair, he harshly criticized his rival’s position yesterday.
“He uses the war to provoke fear and I think that fear will benefit him, I don’t like that kind of manipulation of public opinion at all” was one of the phrases he said during a television interview for the BFM TV channel.
The leader of the National Association (former National Front) also accused the current president of abusing his role to have more visibility than the rest of the presidential candidates.
He uses war to provoke fear and I think that fear will benefit him, I don’t like that kind of manipulation of public opinion at all.
“Use Elysée venues to record campaign videos, they are dishonest media and respond to the contempt shown by Macron towards the French people,” added the candidate.
But despite the contrast, The reality is that the French and potential voters have recognized the efforts of the president in recent months.
Diplomatic role
Macron has been focusing on the diplomatic front since the escalation of tensions between Russia and Ukraine at the end of 2021.
A couple of weeks before the attack on Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Macron He came to move to Moscow to try to stop the escalation. And once in full swing, he has been in regular telephone contact with Vladimir Putin to obtain a ceasefire, so far to no avail.
As a presidential candidate, Macron it has hardly carried out public electoral acts, the first was held last Monday in Poissyon the outskirts of Paris, in a kind of debate before 250 participants, most of them related to the presidential party, La República en Marcha (LREM).
This Saturday he was in Marseille, in what was to be the great first campaign act, but he alleged a lack of agenda due to his diplomatic commitments and was absent, leaving the leading role to the Government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, and to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
But the LREM itself and the opponents of the president-candidate they recognize that an election “is not won before it is disputed.”
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He was in Marseille, in what was to be the great first campaign act, but alleged lack of agenda due to his diplomatic commitments
A phrase that has an important relevance, since many French have remembered the unexpected defeat of Edouard Balladurwhich the polls gave him in second place ahead of Jacques Chirac in 1995, or the setback suffered by Giscard d’Estaing in 1981, when he was in an electoral contest with François Mitterrand.
On the other hand, the Ipsos survey shows other trendss.Leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is running for his third presidential election, has climbed to fourth place, with 12%, ahead of Valerie Pécrésse (11%), the candidate of the center-right Republican movement, heir party to Nicolas Sarkozy and Chirac.
“I am on the right track to reach the gates of the second round,” Mélenchon said in an interview with the Jornal du Dimanche. The dissident of the Socialist Party hopes to galvanize the useful vote of a left, very weakened since 2017.
EFE
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