{"id":14330,"date":"2024-12-22T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=14330"},"modified":"2024-12-22T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:47:47","slug":"two-thirds-of-french-already-unhappy-with-new-pm-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/two-thirds-of-french-already-unhappy-with-new-pm-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-thirds of French already unhappy with new PM: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>France&#8217;s new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, who is still scrambling to name his government before Christmas, faced a fresh challenge Sunday: a historically low poll rating.<\/p>\n<p>Even before he has properly started his job, a new poll carried out by Ifop for the French weekly Journal du Dimanche found 66 percent of respondents were unhappy with his performance.<\/p>\n<p>Only 34 percent said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their new head of government.<\/p>\n<p>Going back decades to 1959, Ifop said it had not seen such a low rating for a prime minister getting started in the job.<\/p>\n<p>They questioned 2,004 people representative of the French population between December 11 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>Bayrou is the sixth prime minister of President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s mandate, and the fourth of 2024. Each has served for a shorter period than the last one.<\/p>\n<p>Bayrou&#8217;s predecessor Michel Barnier was France&#8217;s shortest-serving premier, lasting only three months.<\/p>\n<p>Appointed on December 13, Bayrou has yet to submit his cabinet choices to Macron.<\/p>\n<p>But he told France 2 television on Friday that he hoped his new team would be finalised over the weekend or &#8220;in any case before Christmas&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s new Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, who is still scrambling to name his government before Christmas, faced a fresh challenge Sunday: a historically low poll rating. Even before he has properly started his job, a new poll carried out by Ifop for the French weekly Journal du Dimanche found 66 percent of respondents were unhappy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14331,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14330\/revisions\/14331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}