With a confidence rating of 11%, Emmanuel Macron faces record unpopularity and the abandonment of his former supporters. Gabriel Attal and Édouard Philippe have formalized their break with the president, while Éric Dupond-Moretti denounces the "rats leaving the ship." The head of state, who went to recharge in Honfleur, appears surrounded by his last loyalists.
Emmanuel Macron is going through a painful political twilight. His confidence rating has dropped to 11% in the Le Figaro Magazine barometer conducted by Verian, matching François Hollande's record unpopularity. For All Saints' Day, the president and his wife Brigitte went to Honfleur, in the Norman port, for a private break, but the atmosphere remains stifling at the Élysée, which takes on the air of a besieged fortress.
Former supporters are distancing themselves. Gabriel Attal, former Prime Minister, stated he no longer "understands the decisions" of the president who propelled him. Édouard Philippe, another ex-Prime Minister aspiring to succeed him, broke a taboo by calling on Macron to plan his resignation. These breaks, formalized a day apart, reproduce a political classic: "killing the father" to emancipate oneself.
Éric Dupond-Moretti, lawyer and former Justice Minister, loyally defends Macron. In his book Juré, craché and during his theater tour with J'ai dit, he targets Attal and Philippe, calling them "rats leaving the ship." Yves Thréard, in his editorial, describes Macron as already in the past: "Abandoned by his own, lynched by those who owe him everything, hated in public opinion, the king is naked." The dissolution of June 9, 2024, accelerated this fall, turning promises of a new era into instability reminiscent of the Fourth Republic.
Macron can no longer count on more than a handful of loyalists to defend him publicly, as succession hopefuls multiply their attacks.