France Survey: Two thirds of French people dissatisfied with new prime minister
Two thirds of French people are dissatisfied with France's new Prime Minister François Bayrou. According to the opinion research institute Ifop, there has never been such a low approval rating for a prime minister at the beginning of a term of office.
22.12.2024, 07:00
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The survey was published in the French weekly newspaper "Journal du Dimanche". According to the survey, 66% of respondents are not satisfied with Bayrou's performance. Only 34 percent of French people said they were satisfied or very satisfied with him.
Bayrou is already the sixth prime minister during President Emmanuel Macron's term of office and the fourth in 2024, with each term of office being shorter than that of the respective predecessor. The shortest was Bayrou's predecessor Michel Barnier, who was in office for just three months.
Bayrou, who was appointed on December 13, still has to put together his government team. On Friday, he told France 2 that this should possibly happen at the weekend, "but definitely before Christmas".
Bayrou was criticized a few days ago because he wanted to remain mayor of the Pyrenean town of Pau despite his new position at the head of government and only joined a crisis meeting with Macron on the situation in storm-damaged Mayotte via video due to an appointment there.
"I would have preferred it if the Prime Minister had flown to Mamoudzou instead of Pau," Parliament President Yaël Braun-Pivet told France
