As the elections strategy, political leaders’ dependancy to polls | EUROtoday

HAS all ranges, for all questions, surveys. Four months earlier than the municipal elections, political actors are questioning native “opinion” to find out the most effective candidates within the cities and to help political alliances. As for the 2027 presidential election, surveys on voting intentions have abounded since 2024, even when the names of the runners on the beginning line stay unclear. In October, the polling fee recognized twelve electoral surveys printed on the municipal elections, eight of which have been ordered by stakeholders (outgoing city corridor, candidates, events), six surveys on the legislative elections and two others on the presidential election…

Massively utilized by political workers, the survey instrument is “become very banal, serving as a complement to the investiture acquired in partisan bodies or as a means of competing with partisan rules. In all cases, the candidates can hardly imagine doing without the anointing of the polls”wrote, in 2006, the tutorial Alain Garrigou in The Intoxication of Polls (The Discovery). A really present remark. The interval even appears conducive to a revival, the polling fee having famous in March a “improve within the variety of surveys on local weather, assessments and municipal initiatives. This pattern means that the conduct of such polls takes on a stronger electoral connotation because the deadline for the 2026 municipal elections approaches.wrote the fee, bringing these investigations throughout the scope of the 2016 legislation governing their publication.

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