More suspicious, extra morose, extra drained than their British, German and Italian neighbors, the French are the champions of pessimism. At the tip of a interval of political tensions, between disaster and immobility because the early legislative elections of June 2024, their dismay is rising, reveals the 17e wave of the annual survey of the political confidence barometer piloted by the Sciences Po Political Research Center (Cevipof) and carried out by OpinionWay.
Among French respondents, lower than 1 / 4 (22%) now say they’ve confidence in politics, far behind their European neighbors. Striking, this drop ought to augur nice moments of clarification, first within the municipal elections of March 15 and 22, and particularly throughout the presidential election of 2027. Because the French proceed to suppose that voting is beneficial, at 76%, even when they decide that their democracy is functioning poorly in equal proportion.
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