Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. AFP / CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP / JEFF PACHOUD
In an Ipsos-Sopra Steria survey for The world, one in two French people consider that the flame party endangers democracy. A criterion that has been in sharp decline in recent years.
It’s a broad survey that shows the tectonics of political plates. While the RN, with its 88 deputies, has stood out in recent months with a strategy of notabilization in the National Assembly, La France Insoumise has lined up behind media stunts, multiplying invectives and provocations to the within the Hemicycle itself. Consequence: the party chaired by Jordan Bardella gains points in the polls, the party led by Manuel Bompard loses credibility. As shown in a vast Ipsos-Sopra Steria study for The world , carried out more than a month ago – long before Hamas’s aggression against Israel.
In this investigation “French fractures» published this Tuesday, 57% of French people think that LFI is a dangerous party for democracy. A rate which drops to 52% when the question concerns the RN. Proof that demonization works, the party long held by Marine Le Pen has seen its image improve among respondents over the years. 61% of French people saw it as a danger for democracy. They were only 56% in 2021 and 54% in 2022.
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From this same perspective, 44% of French people perceive the National Rally as a movement capable of governing the country. A surge of 12 points compared to 2020. As with a mirror effect, the image of La France insoumise is deteriorating in public opinion. Concretely, 60% of French people describe LFI as a party “who fuels violence“. In a few years, the “figure of evil» was therefore reversed among the French, moving from RN to LFI. The isolation of the Melenchonist party within the political class, the left, and even the Nupes, with regard to the conflict in the Middle East, should not help matters.