French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating dipped slightly as the country prepares to go to the ballot boxes in next weekend’s presidential runoff.
Macron’s approval rating fell to 41% in April, down from 42% a month earlier, according to an Ifop poll conducted for the Journal du Dimanche. He faces far-right National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen in the final round, in a rematch of their 2017 contest.
Macron is polling higher than his predecessors, Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, did at the same point in their tenures, according to the poll. But he faces a tight race against Le Pen, with both candidates rushing to win voters who backed Jean-Luc Melenchon in the first round.
