The upcoming European Parliament elections can be a serious test of strength in European countries.
All surveys show that the French governing forces are getting less and less support in the upcoming European Union elections. This is especially true for Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party. According to the latest survey by the IFOP polling company, you can count on barely three percent of support among the youngest voters. This is not only a political failure, but also a real image disaster, reports the V4na news agency.
Macron's party can trust the elderly, according to the IFOP, the Renaissance European Parliament list has 31 percent support among those over 65, while the other parties of the French elite - the Republicans at seven percent and the Socialist Party at six percent - do not have the support of young people either.
The survey also revealed that young people consider themselves to be more patriotic than their parents. They stand for the republic and believe that France is in a culture war. This is the other extreme of what Macron and his people have been preaching for years, which can be summed up by one of the president's statements:
"There is no French culture, only culture in France".
The right wing in France can count on 45 percent of young people. Marine Le Pen's National Consolidation would receive 35 percent, Éric Zemmour's Reconquest three percent, and the Republicans seven percent from young people.
Surveys show that young people do not choose extreme parties, but rather those to which a certain hierarchy of values, views and principles can be assigned. According to Polish publicist Dariusz Matuszak Poland should push so that Macron's group achieves the worst possible result. The leader of this list was Valerie Hayer, who spoke publicly on television about, among other things, forcing Poland to accept illegal immigrants.
According to Matuszak, the European Parliament elections could turn out to be a real disaster for Macron. If Renaissance really suffers as big a defeat as the public opinion polls show, it would practically completely deprive the presidential party of the legitimacy of governing. Macron's party could be in third place in the power ranking.
The growing Euroscepticism of young people is not only a phenomenon in France. According to the "Jugend in Deutschland 2024" research, the majority of young people aged 14-29 in Germany would vote for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The Christian Democratic Union and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) are in second place with 20 percent, the Greens are at 18 percent, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party, the Social Democrats, only occupy fourth place among young people, with just over ten percent. .
Front page image: Illustration / Photo: MTI/EPA/Georgi Licovszki
