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Some 55% of French people (+11 points in 2019), a record, are mostly in favor of reinstating the death penalty.

According to an Ipsos / Sopra Steria study published this Monday (see box), the subject remains "very divisive politically" and only RN (85%) and LR (71%, +23 points) sympathizers mostly agree with this statement, approved by a minority (39%) in the other parties.

We note a very strong increase (+31 points over one year) of supporters of the death penalty at LFI + PCF.

Workers (68%), employees (60%) and retirees (55%) mostly agree with this statement, against 41% of managers and 40% of intermediate professions.

According to this study, carried out for the 8th consecutive year for the daily

Le Monde

, the Jean Jaurès Foundation, and the Montaigne Institute, around 82% of French people also believe that "we need a real chef in France to recover. order ”, three points more than last year.

However, the French were more numerous in previous years to express this wish, with the exception of 2019 (79%).

This statement is acclaimed by supporters of the Republicans and the National Rally (97% each, +9 points at LR) but also by those of La France Insoumise and the Communist Party (80%, +33 points).

"Authority is a value that is too often critical today"

Some 71% of EELV sympathizers (+ 6 points), 69% of those of the Socialist Party and 67% of those of En Marche also support this demand.

Manual workers (88%), retirees (86%) and employees (85%) agree more with this statement than intermediate professions (79%) and managers (67%).

The French are, in addition, 88% (+5 points in 2019), a record, to consider that "authority is a value which is too often critical today".

This statement is acclaimed by supporters LR (96%), LREM (95%) and RN (90%) but also by those of the PS (81%), the Greens (79%) and LFI + PCF (75%, + 27 points).

All categories, retirees in the lead (91%), agree with this statement.

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