Burdened by the rise in crime, Élisabeth Borne surpasses the president in popular acceptance three months after becoming prime minister
Three months after taking office, French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is already ahead of President Emmanuel Macron in public approval polls. An Ifop poll published this Sunday by the “Journal du Dimanche” shows that 41% of those polled support Borne’s work, while acceptance in Macron’s case remains at 37%.
The results reflect a fairly noticeable trend change. The prime minister is up three points in popularity, while her boss is down one compared to the latest demographic analysis conducted in July. While experts view these moves as the result of a range of factors, there is a sense of public insecurity that the Executive has not been able to resolve during the previous and current legislature.
Three out of four respondents are against Macron’s policies in this area. More than 20% of the population believe their cities and neighborhoods are unsafe and this has coincided with an increase in theft, assault and sexual abuse. An example was seen by spectators around the world on May 28, when organized groups of attackers robbed countless Real Madrid and Liverpool fans near France’s Paris stadium during the Champions League final.
The president is not prepared to repeat situations like this, especially not two years before the Olympics. A month ago, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced a shock plan to “intensify” the fight against crime, including providing 2,000 additional places to the Paris City Guard and creating another 1,000 posts in the police force. . The Olympics will be held in 2024 and the legacy the French remember of their president will depend largely on their success, in addition to Darmanin’s chances of becoming future head of government.
In reality, the problem of insecurity in the neighboring country goes beyond crime statistics and has much to do with citizens’ perceptions in the face of a reality in which gangs, juvenile delinquency, street clashes and adaptations have increased. weapons or groups of organized robbers. There are gangs dedicated solely to robbing houses, conventions or tourists. As a result, mistrust among the Gauls has increased. In 2018, 48% approved Macron’s anti-crime initiatives.
Élisabeth Borne came to the Prime Minister’s office to replace Jean Castex and was preceded by her fame as a technocrat who has participated in several strategic projects for France, both from the private sphere and from the government, where she took office in 2017. June, when he demanded, before the majority of the National Assembly, the commitment of all parties to unite and solve the country’s problems “because that is what the citizens ask of us”. “Disorder and instability are not an option,” he emphasized.
It is also true that in recent weeks Macron has been responsible for carrying the most pessimistic messages about the “hard” winter that awaits the French as a result of the energy crisis, inflation and the war in Ukraine. On Saturday, during a speech commemorating the Allied landing in Provence in 1944, the President again asked the citizens to prepare for the bill of the coming months because the Gallic people “will need the strength of the soul to to face in the near future”. coming.” The head of the executive reiterated his condemnation of the Russian invasion that brought the war “a few hours away from us on European soil”.
This is the president’s first official speech since the beginning of the summer holidays, which will take place exactly at the residence of Fort Bregançon, in the same region of Provence. However, the president and his wife Briggite are already packing their bags. Macron will travel to Algeria on Thursday to revive damaged relations between the two countries after the French leader described the Maghreb country in a September speech as a “political-military system” with a “rewritten official history”.
Macron plans to “deepen the bilateral relationship, looking to the future for the benefit of the peoples of the two countries.” The visit was made possible by the appeal made by the head of the Elysee to his Algerian counterpart to express his grief over the 40 dead left behind by the fires in Algeria this week.
Source: La Verdad
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