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François Hollande's popularity plummets four months after election
By artappraiser on Sun, 09/23/2012 - 9:40pm |By Kim Wilsher in Paris, guardian.co.uk, 23 September, 2012
François Hollande's popularity has plummeted just four months after he took office, according to the latest opinion poll.
The survey found only 43% of French voters were happy with the Socialist president. The drop of 11 percentage points is one of the worst for a leader in more than 50 years since the start of the fifth republic.
The poll by the Ifop organisation for the Journal du Dimanche found 56% of those asked said they were not happy with the president. The Ifop findings were backed up by two other opinion polls [....]
Frédéric Dabi, the deputy director general of Ifop, said increased taxes and Hollande's plan to give foreigner residents the right to vote in local elections were the main reasons given by those polled for their dissatisfaction with Hollande [....]
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/23/francois-hollande-popularity-plummets-election
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