00:00لا, Macron's approval rating is not 7%
00:07A poll during the rounds on social media
00:09alleges that only 7% of French citizens
00:11trust the country's president, Emmanuel Macron.
00:14The picture of Macron has gained traction on social media
00:17and has been shared by a number of users,
00:19including by politicians from the French far-right
00:22Rassemblement National party.
00:24Euroverifier decided to investigate this
00:26suspiciously low approval rating.
00:28By taking a closer look at the image,
00:30the top-right corner displays a logo,
00:32which is the same as Le Figaro's,
00:34a French conservative daily newspaper.
00:36Euroverifier checked Le Figaro's publications on X
00:39and filed a legitimate post shared by the publication in October 2024.
00:43At the time, a survey commissioned by the newspaper
00:46found that Macron's approval rating was 17%.
00:49The number one preceding the 7% on Le Figaro's original X post
00:53has been erased in order to fool online users.
00:57As for Macron's real trust levels,
00:59according to a poll published in late July,
01:01his approval stands at 28%, a 4-point drop from June.
01:05Meanwhile, another recent poll revealed that 21% of French citizens trusted Macron.
01:10Pollsters use different research methods which can lead to differing results.
01:14However, these figures are a far cry from the 7% figure.
01:18Macron's popularity has dwindled over the course of his second term,
01:21influenced by a range of factors, including his dissolution of the National Assembly in June 2024,
01:27after the far-right surged in the European parliamentary elections,
01:30as well as more recently his government's plans for 2026 budgetary cuts.
01:35Although the post was recently shared by public-facing figures from the Rassemblement National Party,
01:40Euroverify detected that the post has been circulating on social media since December 2024.
01:46Posts analysed by Euroverify reveal that users sharing the fake poll
01:51aim to discredit Macron's political legitimacy.
01:54To think of the feel they are the same.
01:55Thank you!
01:56And the media is satisfying,
01:58we are the same.
01:59I am the same.
02:00And we know we all need to stay.
02:01We can be done in our recent numbers with some of the questions,
02:02we know we have them!
02:03We could be done in the past,
02:04but we can be done in the past.
02:05And we can see you next week,
02:06our black-cold and then we can take advantage of the fact that you are not sure.
02:07We can be done in the past.
02:08We can be done in the past and are not sure.
02:09We can be done in the past,
02:10We can be done in the past.
02:11And we can be done with the rest,
02:12We can be done in the past since we were just like the best riddigal
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