Marine Le Pen is the presidential candidate in whom the French have the most confidence in the fight against corruption.
According to an OpinionWay poll, 27% give him credit for leading this fight.
It is more than Emmanuel Macron (25%), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (22%) or Eric Zemmour (18%).
Nearly one in 10 French people would trust Jean Lassalle (12%), Valérie Pécresse (11%), Philippe Poutou (10%) and Fabien Roussel (9%).
Further back, Yannick Jadot (7%), Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (6%), Nathalie Arthaud (4%) and Anne Hidalgo (4%) are struggling to convince.
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The level of corruption is high in France in the eyes of many respondents: 28% of them believe that corruption is higher there than in other countries of the European Union.
A small majority (52%) think it is about equal to our neighbours.
Marine Le Pen voters in the first round of the 2017 presidential election are the most likely to share this feeling of more frequent corruption in France (40%, compared to 16% of Emmanuel Macron voters).
Hardening of sentences
According to the OpinionWay poll, a majority of French people believe that the fight against corruption in France has not progressed over the past five years (54%, including 16% that it has not progressed at all).
60% of Emmanuel Macron voters in the first round of the 2017 presidential election believe that it has been strengthened, compared to 39% of Marine Le Pen voters and 38% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon voters.
Most French people (86%) believe that the fight against corruption should be a priority.
Consequently, they call for tougher sanctions in this area.
One out of two French people believes that the penalties should be increased (50%) and the corrupters punished even more severely than the corrupt (46%).
They are also one in two to want more strictly to prohibit senior civil servants from “slippering”, that is to say from going to work in private companies whose activity fell within their administrative competences.