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France's Hollande hits new low in poll ratings

President François Hollande suffers lowest rankings since he took up office and the lowest of any president since François Mitterrand in 1991.

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French President Francois Hollande saw his approval ratings fall to their lowest level so far in a monthly poll that showed less than a quarter of voters were satisfied with his actions, reports Reuters.

In a survey by pollster IFOP published in weekly paper Le Journal du Dimanche, Hollande's approval ratings dropped 5 points from last month to 23 percent.

This was below his previous low of 25 percent in the same poll in April and close to the lowest ever score for a French president, the 22 percent recorded in 1991 by Francois Mitterrand, France's previous Socialist president, the paper said.

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