Some 39% of the French are positioning themselves to the right, a revenue increase of 5 percentage points compared to June 2019, and by 3 points compared to November and march 2017, according to a survey of the Fifg.
According to a survey of the Fifg for le Point, the French are more likely to position themselves to the right than in previous years. “If the results of such studies are usually relatively stable from wave to wave, this time of the changes emerging and there is a phenomenon of rightward shift of the electorate nationally,” wrote the Fifg in its report published on Thursday.
Some 39% of the French are positioning themselves to the right, a revenue increase of 5 percentage points compared to June 2019, and by 3 points compared to November and march 2017. Approximately 32% of the French are in the center (-3 percentage points year on year, -6 points compared to November 2017, -2 points compared to march 2017). And only 13% say they lie to the left (-3 percentage points year on year, -2 points compared to November 2017, -10 points on march 2017).
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The institute survey asked respondents to locate themselves on a scale of 0 to 10, the numeral 0 to the left position and 10 for the right-most. At the centre, the French were in November 2017 24% to be on the number 5. Today they are no more than 15%. They were 8% to be in the center-right (figure 6) in November 2017, they are now 11%. They are still 6% to be on the centre-left (figure 4).
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Has the right (figures 7 to 10), the French were a 4% fall in the number 9 November 2017, they are now 11%. The supporters of the presidential party, LREM also droitisés. They are on the figure was 6.7 (near the right), compared to 6.2 for the whole of the French, while in November 2017, they fell on the figure of 5.6 (near the center right), compared to 5.8 for the whole of the French. The director of the department Opinion of the Ifop Jérôme Fourquet, explains in this rightward shift by a “work of substitution election”, which began after the parliamentary elections of June 2017.
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“The news safe currently occupies an important place in the media space (the death of George Floyd and its impacts, the incidents of Dijon, …)” also explains Jérôme Fouquet. “Then, the aging of the population and the weakening of the centrist accelerated since 2017 is also involved”, he adds.
the original to the copy
“When Emmanuel Macron has found that the right, in spite of the case Fillon, had resisted getting 100 members, it has become the camp to fracture. Where the sequence of appointments and policy choices”, avance-t-il. But “if France is to the right, so take care, she will always prefer the original to the copy”, has warned his side the leader of the deputies LR Damien Abad.
the Study, conducted online from July 7 to 10, with 2.041 persons representative of the French population aged 18 years and older, according to the method of quotas. Margin of error of 1% to 2.2%.
