In answer to the question “Do you favor enlargement of the coalition against Daesh to include Russia?”

Featured in the online edition of the center-Right French newspaper Le Figaro, at 8.00 CET Wednesday, 18 November- 55,638 respondents voted as follows:

Yes: 92% No: 8%

The poll was positioned just below the following International News article by Isabelle Lasserre:

Hollande and Putin are drawing closer together to fight Daesh. The French President will meet Obama on 24 November, then his Russian counterpart two days later to try to form a single anti-Islamic State coalition.

After years of stalemate, sometimes it takes a single event to set off an abrupt acceleration of history and change the course of a war. Only four days after the attacks in Paris, France and Russia, embroiled in the conflict in Ukraine for more than a year and a half, have put their disputes to one side in the name of the fight against Daesh. Vladimir Poutine did not wait 24 hours to respond, at least symbolically, to the proposal of François Hollande to put together a single grand coalition to defeat the Jihadists. The Russian President, who will receive François Hollande in Moscow on 26 November, has ordered his navy in the Mediterranean to “cooperate with the Allies and enter “into contact” with the aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle, which is expected to reach the region on Thursday. At the conclusion of a telephone conversation on Tuesday, the two Presidents spoke of a “closer coordination” between their intelligence services.