Ifop for LCI questioned the French on the announcements made by François Bayrou on July 15.
A majority of French people (57%) consider the savings plan announced by François Bayrou on July 15 to be “necessary, given our country’s debt and financial situation”. While the French consider it necessary to make savings, less than half (43%) feel that the plan is “courageous”, and less than a third that it is “realistic” (31%), and that it “fairly distributes the efforts required of the French and companies” (28%). Finally, a quarter of French people consider it “fair” (26%).
Among the proposed measures, only “the creation of a solidarity contribution for the highest incomes” is supported by a consensus (74%). The other measures envisaged are supported by only a minority of French people: “not replacing one in three civil servants retiring” (47%), “introducing a blank year in 2026” (41%), “abolishing the 10% deduction for pensioners receiving large pensions” (38%). Finally, the abolition of the two public holidays of Easter Monday and May 8th received less than a quarter of favorable opinions (23%), with only Renaissance sympathizers approving the measure in the majority (57%).
