Published on September 14, 2023 at 5:25 p.m.Updated September 14, 2023 at 5:32 p.m.
A rating at the highest. According to a survey carried out by Elabe for BFMTV, Marine Le Pen’s image among the French is clearly improving after a media treatment lasting several weeks. Before the RN’s parliamentary start-up days, organized this weekend in Beaucaire, near Avignon, the finalist of the last presidential election is gaining ground in public opinion.
“The most striking thing is that she is progressing in presidential eligibility on her ability to reform the country (50%), to bring the French together (47%), as well as on the qualities necessary to be President of the Republic (48%). It’s rare that in three months, we have such an evolution,” underlines Bernard Sananès, the president of Elabe.
Increasing among executives and retirees
A sign that the dynamic concerns all sections of the electorate, the leader of the RN deputies is improving her image particularly strongly among retirees. An age group usually reluctant to recognize any form of credibility in it. They are now 48% who agree that she has the qualities to be President of the Republic, up 13 points compared to June. One in two retirees, or 20 points more than before the summer, consider him capable of bringing the French together.
Marine Le Pen also improves her image among executives, a socio-professional category which is traditionally less familiar to her. 60% trust him on specific government issues (security and immigration).
Promise of change
Above all, she is making progress on “France’s place in Europe and in the world” even if six out of ten French people still consider that her coming to power would divide the country and harm its international image: 41% of respondents “trust” her. in this area reserved for the Head of State, which represents an improvement of 4 points in a few months.
“The time when the opposition that we embody was only a force of protest is long gone. More than ever, we embody hope and solutions,” insisted Marine Le Pen during her back-to-school speech in Hénin-Beaumont last Sunday. A majority of French people – 54% – say they “agree” with this sentence. “It is gradually ing the gl ceiling in categories where it was not in a position of strength,” analyzes Bernard Sananès. While becoming normalized, it manages to embody a strong promise of change. »
Still on the far right
For two thirds of those questioned, the policy pursued by Marine Le Pen if she came to power would be really different. 49% of them think that we should give Marine Le Pen and the National Rally a chance because “we have never tried them”, a figure up 4 points, when 37% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s voters find them competent while granting them the necessary qualities to one day access the Elysée.
The only downside is that almost one in two respondents (49%) think that it is far-right (49%), and 51% still consider it “worrying”.
