Strongly criticized by the political class after having mentioned sending Western soldiers to Ukrainian soil as an “option”, Emmanuel Macron is also disapproved by a majority of French people.
The French president, who responded to a journalist's question, nevertheless considered that there was
"no consensus"
at this stage and assumed a "
strategic ambiguity"
on this subject.
According to an Odoxa-Backbone Consulting survey for
Le Figaro,
68% of French people consider that the head of state was wrong to display this position.
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It is the supporters of the National Rally who most overwhelmingly disapprove (83%) of the president's remarks, followed by the Insoumis (67%), the LR (66%), the ecologists (63%) and finally the socialists (59%). .
Only the Macronist troops support the position of the head of state at 69%.
More than two years after Russia's invasion of eastern Ukraine, the conflict still worries more than three-quarters of French people (77%).
A level almost as high as in 2022 (86%).
Faced with war, a narrow majority of French people (51%) want Emmanuel Macron to maintain a form of status quo and consider Russia as
“a necessary evil with which we must deal”
.
37%, on the other hand, call on the head of state to consider Moscow as
“an adversary to be fought” and
only 11% as an ally.
Here again, RN (18%) and LFI (16%) supporters are the most likely to want a rapprochement with the Kremlin.
It must be said that less than four months before the European elections, the different camps are fighting over the Ukrainian issue.
Like Gabriel Attal's intervention on Monday in the National Assembly, the Prime Minister likening Marine Le Pen's
“troops”
to those of Vladimir Putin.
An attack which provoked the ire of the double-finalist in the presidential election, who denounced
the “insult”
and
“insult”
of the head of government.
An opinion shared by a small majority of French people (55%), who also disapprove of Gabriel Attal's comments.