what impact on the popularity of Emmanuel Macron, candidate for re-election?

Emmanuel Macron is accused by his opponents of instrumentalizing the war in Ukraine. “We can say that [la guerre] benefits him because there is what is called the ‘flag effect’, that is to say that in a period of crisis, there is a kind of anxiety in the population, and that the side ‘warlord’, protective and experienced (…) is something that reassures people“, to analyse the journalist Nathalie Saint-Cricq, present on the set of the 8 Hours of France 2, Monday March 14.

In the polls,it is considered that 70% of French people say that their vote will be affected by the war“, continues the journalist, who specifies that “its opponents have had floating positions on the war“Eric Zemmour notably refused at first to welcome Ukrainian refugees, and had previously predicted that Vladimir Putin would never invade Ukraine.