General advice: even 52% of the French for their removal – France Soir

Two weeks before the first round of departmental elections, the French are mostly pronounced for control of councils. In total, 52% of respondents, according to a survey by the FIFG for Sunday Ouest France , vote in favor of the disappearance of these departmental institutions. They were 60% in April 2014, but only 39% in October 2008.

While only 29% of respondents say they know the name of the president of their General Council, however, they are less likely to wish away this local level. This observation varies greatly that respondents live in cities or in rural areas. Thus, if 62% of people in the Paris region are in favor of the disappearance of the general councils, only 40% of respondents in rural areas (where the action of the department in charge of school transport and local roads in particular, is the more visible) vote in this direction.

Another divide is striking, it is operating according to the political sensitivities of respondents and “ occurs more between the said parties of government and between the extreme left and right , “said Ifop. Thus “ 61% of the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2012 and 57% of those of Marine Le Pen (whose party is favored by polls, Ed) are opposed to this deletion , against 39% of voters of François Hollande, 40% of those of François Bayrou and 41% of those of Nicolas Sarkozy , “said the survey institute.

This poll was directed by internet (self-administered questionnaire) of 27 February to 5 March, with a sample of 1,400 people representative of the French population aged 18 years and over.