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Macron's approval rating goes negative after just three months

YouGov poll, commissioned for Huffington Post and CNews TV channel, echoes results of another survey on president's sliding popularity.

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Emmanuel Macron’s honeymoon with voters has ended after just three months in office, according to new polls of the French public, reports The Independent.

The French president’s approval ratings have already gone negative, with those approving of his record slipping seven points, to 36 per cent.

Those disapproving of Mr Macron’s record rose to 49 per cent, up seven, a net negative score of -13 points.

The number of voters approving of Mr Macron’s record however still outnumbers the proportion of the population who voted for him in the first round of the presidential election.

There, he won 24 per cent of the vote – narrowly lead a four-way divided field split between the far right, centre-centre, left, and himself: a liberal centrist. 

The YouGov poll, jointly commissioned for the Huffington Post and the CNews TV channel, echoes the results of another survey by the pollster Ifop at the end of last month.

Read more of this report from The Independent.