The new five-year term of the French president Emmanuel Macron officially starts next Monday, but polls show that citizens are pessimistic about his desire for "transformation", said the MIA correspondent.

On April 13, 2020, during a speech announcing a timetable for exiting restrictive anti-dumping measures, he called for thinking outside the box. "To know, at this moment, to think outside the box, ideologies, to reinvent ourselves - starting with me."

Two years later, despite his re-election, public opinion does not seem to believe in such a promise. According to a poll by Odoxa Buckbon-Consulting for Paris-based Le Figaro, 65% of French people believe that the President of the Republic has not changed since 2017.

The same percentage of respondents also believe that Emmanuel Macron "did not learn from his failures and mistakes". With 72 per cent predicting the head of state will not change the way he leads, he is wary of choosing the next government team.

Regarding the announced pension reform, which was one of the highlights of his second five-year term, only 50 percent of French people believe that Macron will be able to implement his project. Also, 49 percent predict that they will not be able to fulfill their promises. Pessimism is even stronger when it comes to improving purchasing power (67 percent fear it will not revive it) or strengthening security (68 percent disagree).

The only positive points for Emanuel Macron at the beginning of his new term: his image characteristics. If 40% of French people consider the Elysee's resident to be a good president, 65% of his compatriots consider him dynamic, and 56% consider him brave. Eligible as brutal at the beginning of the year by 59 percent of the public - a rate heightened by his desire to "anger" the unvaccinated - Emanuel Macron is only 49 percent. His skills as head of state are praised in a similar proportion.

One month before the parliamentary elections, less than a majority of French people (40%) finally expect the National Assembly to be a brake on the policy of the President of the Republic. They are much more afraid of the street opposition (53%) and civil society (45%), ie they are afraid of a new social movement, such as the "yellow vests" that have paralyzed the country for several months.