Macron has virtually no public support. Bardella wants to become prime minister

Public trust in French President Emmanuel Macron dropped by 5 points within a month. percent and is 11 percent. – reports “Le Figaro” on Thursday, citing its Barometere Figaro survey. Meanwhile, the head of the far-right National Union (RN), Jordan Bardella, announced that he would become prime minister within a few weeks.

11 percent support is the worst result for a head of state in the history of the Fifth Republic since the presidency of Francois Hollande, whose ratings dropped to this level in 2016 – writes the Parisian daily.

He also explains that this means that the president was poorly assessed in the poll not only by his opponents, but also by part of his own electorate.

However, the ratings of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu are improving, as he is rated positively not only by voters of the parties forming the pro-government bloc called Together for the Republic (75%), but also by the electorate of socialists (34%, an increase of 14 points) and center-right Republicans (46%, an increase of 9 points).

The leader of the RN, Marine Le Pen's former National Front, Jordan Bardella, is also gaining in the poll, with 87 percent support. far-right voters, 51 percent right-wing sympathizers and 26 percent centrist voters.

On Thursday, the BFMTV website quotes Bardella's statement from a Wednesday interview for this television, in which the head of the Supervisory Board announced that he was “preparing to take over, perhaps in the coming weeks, the position of prime minister of his country.”

The far-right politician estimated that the Lecorn government would soon collapse, and then the president would have no choice but to appoint someone from the National Council, i.e. the party with the largest group of deputies in the National Assembly, as head of government.

Bardella also accused the formations supporting the government, including the Socialists (PS) and Republicans, of being willing to “sell their mother” in order to maintain power, and of “playing with the country's stability” and preparing a budget that is a “social slaughterhouse.”

The daily “Le Monde” estimates that the head of the Supervisory Board, who has just published his second book, entitled “Ce que veulent les Francais” (What the French want), tries to become independent from her mentor and leader of the French far right, Marine Le Pen.

While in the first book “Ce que je cherche” (What I am looking for), Bardella paid a clear tribute to Le Pen and devoted an entire 12 pages to her, in the 400 pages of “Ce que veulent les Francais” he mentions her only once, while he presents himself as a “man of providence” of French politics.

According to Le Monde, he is trying to take advantage of the fact that Le Pen is in a difficult position, as she has been convicted of embezzlement of public funds. In France, such a verdict means a ban on running for public office, although Le Pen hopes to win an appeal against the verdict.

“Since Marine le Pen was convicted on March 31 (…), Jordan Bardella has been aspiring to both the role of president and prime minister,” concludes “Le Monde.”

In mid-October, the French parliament rejected two separate motions of no confidence in Lecorn's minority cabinet, submitted by the far left and the far right. The government survived thanks to the votes of the socialists, who, however, announced that they did not rule out that in the future they would vote for a vote of no confidence together with other left-wing parties. The fall of the government would most likely mean early parliamentary elections. (PAP)

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