The youngest in the history of the Fifth Republic, President Emmanuel Macron is in danger of finally losing popularity among his fellow citizens. According to the results of recent sociological surveys, the level of trust of the country's residents towards their leader began to fall, and quite rapidly.
The rating of the French leader for the month, according to the Journal du Dimanche, with reference to the results of the poll of the center Ifop, lost 10 points and amounted to 54%.
And yet a month ago public opinion polls showed that seven out of ten residents of the country were ready, as they say, to carry their president in their hands. And this is not surprising: such a dynamic with a minus sign is due to a number of "problems of incompetence of the newly elected leader of the country". These are difficulties with the adoption of the military budget, and concerns related to reforms in the sphere of pensions, labor law, taxation.
Major blow to the credibility Makron emphasize French intelligence began his public quarrel with the head of the General Staff of Pierre de Villiers. The president nearly lost his face by double-ranking his most senior military public. And the phrase "I'm your boss", thrown by the president, seems to have become the last straw for the general, after which he resigned.
Opponents gladly took advantage of this, introducing Emmanuel Macron in the form of a jealous youth who can not handle the elders. The meaning of the reproaches was that it was not a matter of blaming the 61-year-old high-ranking military officer before his subordinates. Even if you and the president. It is necessary to be flexible and tolerant. Especially if it concerns the military, to which the French always treated with a notable piety.
Thus, for several weeks now the French public can not come to their senses. For the first time in the history of the country the head of the General Staff left, slamming the door, because of disagreement with the president. The press started talking about the most serious crisis in the relations between the government and the army since the "general putsch" in 1961. , With which then-President Charles de Gaulle had to cope.
In addition, there are also fears that Emmanuelle Macron is inclined to the ideas of Bonapartism. In what it already more than once reproached. One example - Macron assembled in Versailles Congress, consisting of deputies of the National Assembly and the Senate and traditionally convened only for particularly important reasons. The President briefed parliamentarians on his program, immediately called the throne speech.
Local cartoonists did not keep themselves waiting and the next day some French tabloids portrayed Macron in the Napoleonic cocked hat, which, as the sources close to the president say, literally enraged him.
It looks like the decisive and ambitious French president has a weak spot. He is very sensitive to everything that may even remotely seem an attempt on his authority. To this weakness opinion mercilessly.
Thus, minus 10% in the rating of Macron, this is the strongest drop in public confidence in the president after three months in power. It was worse only for Jacques Chirac in May-July 1995. But the mastodon of French politics made up for lost in a month or two - and already did not allow himself such luxury to be scattered by the trust of its citizens.
How the new president of France will prove himself, time will tell, but in any case Emmanuel Macron already has something to think about and draw appropriate conclusions.
The second round of presidential elections was held in France on May 7. Macron received 66.1% of the vote, and his rival - the representative of the "National Front" Marin Le Pen - 33.9%. As a result of the parliamentary elections held in June, Emmanuel Macron's party "Forward, the Republic!" Won. Its representatives received 308 out of 577 seats in the lower house of the French parliament.