‘85% of French don’t want Hollande’

The majority of the French people do not want Francois Hollande to seek a second term as the president of the country, a new poll shows.

The poll results, published on Sunday, revealed that 85 percent of the French people opposed the idea that Hollande should run for the 2017 presidential election, with 50 percent accusing him of not keeping his promises.

The poll, which surveyed 988 people, was conducted by Institut francais d’opinion publique (IFOP) for French weekly Le Journal Du Dimanche between September 5 and September 6.

Support for the French president has also shrunk among many of his left-wing voters over his failure to handle of the economy with an unemployment rate nearing a record high above 10 percent.

The IFOP poll came after another one by TNS-Sofres on Friday, which showed a 13-percent drop in Hollande’s popularity in August, making him the most unpopular French leader since World War II.

On Sunday, far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen called the situation in France “disastrous,” saying, “It is more than necessary to let the French people speak again and to dissolve the national assembly,” where the ruling Socialists have a majority.

“Polls are giving us hope. They show there is no longer a glass ceiling that would block our electoral victory,” she said at a meeting of the young members of her party in Frejus in southern France.

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