Emmanuel Macron's “black week” has left its mark

Caught in a chain of more or less intense polemics, the President of the Republic sees the French take a severe look at these different episodes, whether it is "humanity" LREM deputies, words from the Keeper of the Seals on the young Mila, strong criticism from the Council of State on pension reform and then on the Castaner circular, and finally the photo of Emmanuel Macron posing with a t-shirt linked to the LBD in Angoulême.

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"Each of these episodes did damage and none was perceived by the French as a" not so serious "controversy born of quibbling media , " observes the Odoxa institute which carried out a survey on the subject for Le Figaro and USAinformations. Of all these hiccups, it is the one on LREM deputies who is judged the most severely. The parliamentarians had rejected in amendment an amendment allowing to give twelve days of leave to the parents who lost a child before the head of state calls on the government to show more "humanity" .

Among the French respondents, 73% of them consider the affair "fairly serious" . This is all the more worrying since only 9% of those questioned had not heard of this story.

A majority considers the controversies "fairly serious"

In second position, it is the Mila affair which irritated the French. They are thus 63% to judge "rather serious" the words of Nicole Belloubet. The Minister of Justice had estimated that the teenager was guilty of "insulting religion" and "attacking freedom of conscience" when she was threatened with death on the networks for having criticized the 'Islam.

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At the heart of the news since the end of 2019, the pension reform continues to worry the French. They are thus 57% to judge "quite serious" the rejection by the Council of State of the first version of the pension reform. The only reason for satisfaction for the Head of State, the photo taken at the Angoulême Comic Strip Festival, on which he posed with a T-shirt denouncing "police violence", was considered "fairly serious" only by 41 % of respondents when 34% find the episode “not serious” and 24% have never even heard of it. A sign that the intensity of a controversy on social networks does not necessarily have the same impact in the real world.