Hollande Failed on Unemployment, Shouldn’t Run Again, Poll Shows
- Odoxa survey shows 80% don’t want to see president in race
- Respondents also doubt Sarkozy would fix unemployment problem
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President Francois Hollande should not run for a second term as he failed to tackle France’s unemployment problem, according to 80 percent of the respondents in a poll by Odoxa published Friday.
Eighty-eight percent of respondents said Hollande won’t be able to stop unemployment rising in France while 78 percent said former head of state Nicolas Sarkozy, who is running for president again, wouldn’t be any better. Republican front-runner Alain Juppe and Emmanuel Macron, Hollande’s former economy minister who has hinted at his own bid for the presidency, were seen as most likely to cut the jobless rate, the poll showed.