Macron’s Approval Rating Inches Higher to 30% in Ifop Poll

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French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating rose to 30% in May, his best score since last summer in the monthly Ifop opinion survey published by Le Journal du Dimanche.

The level of support for Macron rose by 1 percentage point from April, but about two out of three of those surveyed are not satisfied with his performance as president, according to the survey published in the daily newspaper Sunday. Two years after his 2017 election, Macron is getting more support than Francois Hollande at the same time of his mandate. Satisfaction for Macron has been recovering in the Ifop poll after a hitting a 23% low in December.