Two soundings since the start of containment. One is rewarding for the executive, the other is worrying for him. In the Harris Interactive-LCI survey, Emmanuel Macron gained 13 points of trust and Edouard Philippe 10, finding levels unequaled for more than two years. But according to Ifop-JDD, the doubt on the action of the government flies away compared to the beginnings of the crisis. Seemingly contradictory, these polls express two different realities.
On the one hand, there is a reflex of national union which we had already witnessed for the benefit of François Hollande, in the aftermath of the Islamist attacks. The gravity of a situation coupled with the effect of amazement leads opinion to be united around him who, by his function, embodies the unity of the nation. The same phenomenon is confirmed elsewhere in the world, but it is always more pronounced in France. It is the logic of the Fifth Republic, which concentrates all the political load, but also media, on the head of only one. And the example
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