In the spotlight: the survey that confirms Emmanuel Macron
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French President Emmanuel Macron during a press conference at the Élysée Palace in París, January 7, 2022. Michel Euler POOL / AFP / Archivos
By: Norbert Navarro
3 min
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In the opinion of the French, the president (for the time being anyway), is not penalized by his discourteous exit against the unvaccinated:
Castigating the latter in an interview on Wednesday with readers of the daily
Le Parisien
, and whose content had even been posted on Tuesday evening on the website of this newspaper, the head of state said he had "
I really want to piss them off […] until the end
", immediately sparking an outcry, in the political class as elsewhere! And this morning, this same
Parisian
published an Ipsos poll conducted Wednesday and Thursday, in the midst of a storm raised by these discourteous presidential remarks.
"
A small sentence without incidence ... for the moment
", underlines in fact
Le Parisien
. This thunderous declaration "
even solidifies its electorate
," the director general of Ipsos Brice Teinturier told this daily.
With 26% (or 25.5% in the event of a Taubira candidacy) of the French who would vote for him in the first round if the election took place on Sunday, he even gained one point compared to (in the previous poll in) December , and distance his pursuers by 9 points (for Marine Le Pen)
”. However,
Le Parisien
notes that "
things can obviously move, depending in particular on the anti-tax demonstrations this Saturday, January 8 in a climate more hot than ever
".
In detail, the
Parisian
Ipsos poll therefore grants 26% of the voting intentions to Emmanuel Macron (and 25.5% if Christiane Taubira is a candidate), 17% to the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen, 16% to that from the right-wing Les Républicains party Valérie Pécresse, or 12% to the Reconquest candidate Éric Zemmour.
On the left, on the other hand, Norbert, less than a hundred days before the first round of the presidential election, it is always the rout ahead:
Being underlined that, in the poll of the
Parisian
, the first candidate of the left is that of France rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is credited with 9% of the voting intentions, in front of the ecological candidate Yannick Jadot, with 8% (Christiane Taubira not exceeding 3%),
Le Figaro
believes that the left is "
in perdition
", all the left candidates still failing to "
cross the 30% mark
".
"
There is no Taubira effect
", points "in One" this daily.
So what will President Hollande's former Minister of Justice do?
Le Figaro
reports that Christiane Taubira "
will clarify her intentions next week
". In this newspaper, a relative of the potential candidate ensures that "
Christiane Taubira will address the French before January 16 (...) she will start to say strong things, perhaps this Sunday in Bondy
", near Paris . And it does not matter that the polls are for her at half mast, "
the dynamic will come with the candidacy
", we want to believe in those around him, reports
Le Figaro
.
Two words from Mali to conclude, Norbert, with the extraordinary summit of the ECOWAS. Which Economic Community of West African States threatened Bamako with financial sanctions:
What will be the attitude of the West African organization towards Mali?
On the
Figaro
site , the director of the Citizen's Observatory on Governance and Security Baba Dakono assures us that the ECOWAS “
will undoubtedly take strong measures to put pressure on the junta.
But the situation is extraordinarily complex, he adds.
The presidents of neighboring countries must be careful at the same time not to weaken Mali, already fragile, too much, because this could cause great suffering for the populations and, in the end, benefit the jihadists
”.
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