Record number of French disapprove of government's economic policy

Paris - If French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to know why he and his ruling UMP party suffered a heavy defeat in recent regional elections, he would do well to read the results of a poll made public Wednesday by France Info radio.

According to the survey, a record 70 per cent of respondents said they disapproved of the government's economic policies, up 7 per cent over one month ago.

Only 27 per cent of those asked in the poll said they had a good opinion of the government's economic policies, down 5 per cent from February.

According to the BVA institute, which carried out the poll, that is "close to the lowest ever level of approval recorded by this indicator."

The poll was taken on March 26 and 27, less than a week after the ruling conservatives suffered one of their worst-ever electoral defeats, drawing only 35 per cent of the votes cast in the second round of regional elections.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/316561,record-number-of-french-disapprove-of-governments-economic-policy.html.