French President Emmanuel Macron (file photo:VCG) 

More than 80 percent of French people believed that President Emmanuel Macron's fiscal and economic policy was favoring the rich, adding more pressure to the pro-market head of state to regain public support he lost few months after his stay at the Elysee Palace, a poll showed on October 24.
An Odoxa survey for regional media, l'Express and France inter radio, found that 88 of respondents thought the big winners of his tax policy were the rich. Some 54 percent of them thought he was "a bad president."
The 39-year-old head of state "is more than ever seen as" the President of the rich" by the French which say the only big winners of his tax policy would be the great fortunes," the pollster said.
Macron in a rare TV appearance on Oct. 15 dismissed growing criticism over his pro-liberal roadmap, stressing "I'm the President of all the French. We're taking care of the France where things aren't going well."
"There will always be resistance, comments... I am not here to manage or reform, but to transform," he said.
Macron's approval ratings have tumbled since his election five months ago, pulled down by labor reforms, budget cuts, and the decrease in housing subsidies.