The popularity of the executive, after rising last month at the start of confinement, went down, Emmanuel Macron losing 2 points (to 38%) and Edouard Philippe falling 3 points (to 41%), according to a BVA poll released Friday, April 24.
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With 61% of bad opinions (+2) for the President of the Republic and 58% (+3) for the Prime Minister according to this survey for RTL and Orange, the two heads of the executive found, after the upturn in March , popularity levels close to those obtained since the start of the 2019 academic year.
While Emmanuel Macron called to " reinvent us, me first ", only 39% of French people think that, following the health crisis, the Head of State will change his political line during the next two years of his five year term.
A barely larger proportion (41%) believe that he will change the way he exercises the presidential office.
Asked about the evolution of Emmanuel Macron's political line during the next two years of his five-year term, 41% of those polled want it to be neither more to the right nor more to the left, while 17% do not comment.
A quarter of those questioned would nevertheless like their political line to be more to the left (25%). Only 17% of those questioned are in favor of a more right-wing political line.