Emmanuel Macron's popularity rating plummeted to 28% in March, its lowest level since the beginning of 2019 at the end of the "
yellow vests
" crisis, when the government used article 49-3 to pass its pension reform, according to the monthly Ifop barometer published by the
Journal du Dimanche
.
The Head of State is 28% satisfied (-4 points) and 70% dissatisfied according to this study carried out between March 9 and 16, i.e. during the negotiations which finally led Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne to resort to article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution to have the much-contested reform adopted, which raises the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
Emmanuel Macron's popularity has fallen by 13 points since his re-election in May 2022. It had reached its lowest level (23%) in December 2018, at the height of the demonstrations of "
yellow vests
".
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For her part, the popularity of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne remained stable in March at 29% satisfied, but with a little more dissatisfaction (67%, +1).
She remains at her lowest level of popularity since her arrival at Matignon in May.
Survey conducted online with a sample of 1,928 people aged 18 and over, representative of the French population, according to the quota method, with a margin of error of between 1 and 2.3 points.
