After the first week of confinement to fight the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, French morale is starting to weaken, according to a BVA poll for Europe 1 and Orange released on Saturday evening.
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Confidence in government down
Main lesson of this new survey: two indicators relating to the management of the crisis by the government deteriorate clearly. Only 46% of French people say they are confident about the way the government is managing the crisis. This is 7 points less compared to the same poll on Friday, which revealed that the majority of French people were still confident (53%).
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The other indicator is that of confidence in the information on the coronavirus distilled by the public authorities. Only 50% of respondents say they have confidence, a result down by 5 points. This general decline in confidence concerns all categories of the population, with the exception of LREM supporters.
Pessimism
The deterioration of confidence seems to be partly explained by the controversy about the distribution and the lack of masks. In this context, pessimism is gaining ground. 75% of French people believe that the worst is yet to come, 3 points more compared to Friday.