France General Discussion III: Tout doit disparaître

[EPG]

Ifop poll, presidential election 2022, 1st round

Macron: 36%
Le Pen: 23%
Mélenchon: 16.5%
Wauquiez: 8%
Hamon: 7%
Dupont-Aignan: 6%
Others at 1% or under.

Ifop also polled the race with the 2017 candidates : Fillon does better than Wauquiez (12%)

1 year after, 42% are satisfied with Macron (Hollande 2013: 21%, Sarkozy 2008: 28%, Chirac 2003: 58%)

Macron:
is authoritarian: 73%
has authority: 73%
knows where he is going: 67%
has a vision for the country: 58%
is competent: 57%
defends the interest of France: 55%
is likable: 53%
is honest: 48%
is sincere: 44%
is fair: 37%
is capable to unite the French: 33%
understands the concerns of the French: 30%

Thanks. Those are remarkably good numbers for Macron, albeit after a short time.

[Hnv1]

Help me get my MA.

I've heard France has a regulatory body that regulates election polls before publishing. Does anyone have any information on it, preferably in English? or the law it operates according to which?

secondly, does anyone have a concentrated link to the results of the big elections polls at the eve of the last presidential elections? I remember seeing some chart here but I can't seem to find it.

thanks in advance

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Help me get my MA.

I've heard France has a regulatory body that regulates election polls before publishing. Does anyone have any information on it, preferably in English? or the law it operates according to which?

secondly, does anyone have a concentrated link to the results of the big elections polls at the eve of the last presidential elections? I remember seeing some chart here but I can't seem to find it.

thanks in advance

Hashemite is the one here who'll know the answer to that kind of thing - recommend contacting him directly.

[Tirnam]

Help me get my MA.

I've heard France has a regulatory body that regulates election polls before publishing. Does anyone have any information on it, preferably in English? or the law it operates according to which?

secondly, does anyone have a concentrated link to the results of the big elections polls at the eve of the last presidential elections? I remember seeing some chart here but I can't seem to find it.

thanks in advance

It's the commission on polls created by the law 77-808 (sorry only in French)
But the rules are quite simple: before publishing a poll, a polling institute must make a declaration to the commission (article 7 of the law) in which they promise to follow the rules (to publish some information with the poll (listed on article 2), and to give to the commission a notice of the poll (article 3)). If they don't follow those rules, the commission can order the publication of a statement (article 9).
If a company publishes a poll without being registered or refuses to publish the statement they can be fined up to €75,000 (article 12).
The law also says, in the article 11, that no poll can be published the day before an election.

You can find all the polls on Wikipedia for the 2017, 2012, 2007 and 2002 presidential elections

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/05/02/macron-calls-australian-leaders-wife-delicious-and-demonstrates-the-perils-of-diplomacy-in-a-foreign-language/?utm_term=.cb069e2b036b

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I'm LMFAO.

[parochial boy]

LREM now want to force municipalities to start selling off their Social Housing stock, aping a policy that has been absolutely disastrous wherever it has been implemented.

Absolute scum...

[Lord Halifax]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/05/02/macron-calls-australian-leaders-wife-delicious-and-demonstrates-the-perils-of-diplomacy-in-a-foreign-language/?utm_term=.cb069e2b036b

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I'm LMFAO.

He does like older women.

[Alabama_Indy10]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/05/02/macron-calls-australian-leaders-wife-delicious-and-demonstrates-the-perils-of-diplomacy-in-a-foreign-language/?utm_term=.cb069e2b036b

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I'm LMFAO.

He does like older women.

[swl]

So what do other French think of the strikes? After more than one month, it seems it will be able to continue like this until the end of June with no one conceding. Meanwhile the law will have been voted and Macron will reinforce his "can do" image (and according to the poll posted above, his "authoritarian" and "knows where he is going" image).

I also guess the State will accept to take back some of the debt of the SNCF as most of it is due to political decisions (construction of high-speed lines for example). It would be unfair for the SNCF to start facing competition while hampered by a debt they are not responsible for.
Of course the govermnent will negotiate the conditions since increasing the State debt is the last thing they want.

[Tirnam]

I think the government has won this battle: no popular support for the strike, the number of people on strike is decreasing, the media coverage is now very low, ...
The bill will be on the Senate floor soon and this could be an opportunity to some unions to end the strike (if the bill is amended to include the debt, the investments in the infrastructures, ...)

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/manu-emmanuel-macron-scolds-teenager-nickname-french-resistance-event-today-2018-06-18/

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Macron clearly has no sense of humor.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Missing my main man Hollande everyday tbh. He knew not to take himself seriously.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Officially updating my nickname for him from Flawless Beautiful Macron to Flawless Beautiful Manu.

[parochial boy]

Sorry

[parochial boy]

Bit late but, Les Guignols de l'Info is finished for ever. Seeing as that was the show that introduced me to politics, it seems worth marking.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Bit late but, Les Guignols de l'Info is finished for ever. Seeing as that was the show that introduced me to politics, it seems worth marking.

Didn't their network get bought by a rich dude who hated Les Guignols?

[parochial boy]

I think he'd wanted to kill them for a while. They were well passed the glory days though, I was kind of surprised anyone still watched them

[Hash]

Yeah, I hadn't watched them for years. Maybe it's because of the time at which I used to watch it religiously, but I've always kind of associated Les Guignols to the Chirac/Sarkozy era, particularly the former. At that time, it was a classic.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, I hadn't watched them in a long time and I'm not too heartbroken about this, but it's still sickening that they ended the way they did. Bolloré is a piece of sh*t.

[parochial boy]

May I be the first to say, lol?

[mvd10]

May I be the first to say, lol?

Who could potentially beat Macron anyway? Have there been any rumours on potential candidates? It's probably too early for that though (4 more years and this isn't America where everyone starts plotting to run for president and recruiting staff while they're a toddler ffs). Then again, some candidates announced their bids for the 2017 election very early.

[PSOL]

May I be the first to say, lol?

Please let there be a Front de Guache plurality

May I be the first to say, lol?

Who could potentially beat Macron anyway? Have there been any rumours on potential candidates? It's probably too early for that though (4 more years and this isn't America where everyone starts plotting to run for president and recruiting staff while they're a toddler ffs). Then again, some candidates announced their bids for the 2017 election very early.

What have Les Republicans done?

[Antonio the Sixth]

May I be the first to say, lol?

Couldn't have happened to nicer guys.

[EPG]

Still beats Hamon's 6%.

[parochial boy]

For comparison, Hollande was at almost at exactly the same level at this stage in his presidency - and that was despite a much worse economic situation