Marine Le Pen on March 9, 2021 in Paris. – Jacques Witt / SIPA
Even if this increase is less marked than in the private sector, the voting intentions of civil servants in favor of Marine Le Pen in the presidential election of 2022 are up compared to 2017, even if this increase is less marked than in the private sector. ,
according to a note from the Sciences Po Political Research Center (Cevipof) *.
The political scientist Luc Rouban observed “an electoral push in favor of Marine Le Pen and the RN” for the public service which is especially striking “among executives (from 12% to 18% in the first round) and among employees (from 27 % to 32%) ”, by comparing data collected last April to the votes in 2017.
Emmanuel Macron on the rise among the police and military
The voting intentions of the police and the military for the president of the RN are almost stable, at a high level (44%, against 45% in 2017).
The growth of the National Rally is however less clear in the public than in the private sector, in particular among the self-employed (from 15% to 22%) and employees (from 20% to 28%). Emmanuel Macron, for his part, is declining among civil servants (from 27% to 22%), especially among teachers (from 33% to 21%) and executives (from 34% to 29%), while he is progressing among police officers and military (from 15% to 20%).
The left pays for its division
The decline in voting intentions on the right of civil servants is also marked (from 26% to 20%), a fortiori in management (from 34% to 24%). The study further notes that “overall demand for the left and political ecology has increased considerably” among all voters, especially among civil servants. But this desire comes up against “an offer split between multiple candidates”.
In the first round, out of all civil servants, Marine Le Pen is tied for voting intentions with Emmanuel Macron (22%), followed by the right (20%) embodied mainly by Xavier Bertrand (16%), while the left (35%) is split between many declared or potential candidates (Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Anne Hidalgo and Fabien Roussel).
* This study, which is based on the results of a wave of the Cevipof / Ipsos / Le Monde / Fondation Jean Jaurès electoral survey carried out from April 9 to 15, compared the responses of 787 self-employed workers, of 5,201 private sector employees and 2,445 agents of the three public functions. Among these officials, the survey focused on 350 executives, 561 members of intermediate professions and 743 employees, while isolating 158 police or military and 647 teachers.