Some 63% of French people want the country’s parliament to be dissolved and for new elections to be held, said an Ifop poll for LCI TV on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Francois Bayrou battles to save his minority government.
Ifop’s poll surveyed 1,000 people and was carried out online on August 26.
Bayrou’s minority government looks increasingly likely to be ousted next month after three main opposition parties said they would not back him in a confidence vote which Bayrou announced for September 8, over his plans for sweeping budget cuts.
The political uncertainty has hit French stocks and bonds this week.
Any decision to dissolve parliament has to be made by President Emmanuel Macron, and the Ifop poll said 51% felt Macron would not dissolve parliament.
Macron’s alternative to dissolving parliament, should Bayrou lose his confidence vote, would be to install a new government.
(Reuters)
