French President Emmanuel Macron addresses French troops in Africa's Sahel region in Gao, northern Mali, 19 May 2017. REUTERS/Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool
PARIS (Reuters) - The popularity of France's new president is around the same as his immediate predecessors when they took office, an Ifop poll showed on Sunday, in contrast to a survey that found Emmanuel Macron had the lowest confidence ratings in more than 20 years.
Some 62 percent of the people polled said they were satisfied with Macron, just above his socialist predecessor Francois Hollande's 61 percent rating in May 2012 but below conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 who stood at 65 percent, the Ifop poll for the Journal du Dimanche showed.
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