Among the French who voted for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election and allowed his victory on Sunday April 24, 42% chose him “above all to block Marine Le Pen”, according to an Ipsos-Sopra Steria survey* for Radio France, France Télévisions, France 24, parliamentary channels and Le Parisien-Today in France. According to the same survey, more than half of these voters (58%) did so because they consider “above all that he would make a good President of the Republic”.
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Following this re-election of Emmanuel Macron, 46% of respondents feel “negative feelings”. They are 20% to experience “disappointment”, 18% to express “anger” and 8% describe “fear”. Another reaction expressed: 34% of those questioned say they feel “positive feelings”of which 20% of “relief”, 10% d‘”hope” and 4% of “joy”. They are 20% to say to themselves “indifferent” to this result.
Invited to express themselves on what they now expect from the re-elected president, 57% of French people want him to “gather”, “even if that means postponing some reforms.” Nearly eight out of ten French people (77%) of them already expect “turmoil and tension in the country in the coming months”according to this Ipsos-Sopra Steria survey.
A relative majority of respondents (43%) want a policy “no more, no less to the left than during the previous five-year term”, against 35% more on the left and 22% more on the right. Regarding the legislative elections, which will take place in seven weeks, on June 12 and 19, 56% of those questioned want Emmanuel Macron “loses the legislative”, 20% want him to get a majority, and 24% of them think he is “preferable for consistency” that he obtains a majority.
An overwhelming majority of left-wing sympathizers (93%) want an alliance for these legislative elections. On the right, 37% of supporters of the Les Républicains party say they are in favor of a rapprochement with LREM and the presidential majority, 23% with the National Rally, and 40% with neither. Supporters of the National Rally (74%) and Reconquête (94%) are also in favor of a union of the two far-right parties, which a majority of French respondents (65%) in this survey do not want. .
*This survey was conducted on the internet from April 21 to 23 among 4,000 people registered on the electoral lists, constituting a representative sample of the French population aged 18 and over. The quota method was applied.