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More than half of French people questioned disprove of the French’s President’s performance, according to the Ipsos Game Changers poll for French daily Le Point. Of those surveyed, 54 per cent were “dissatisfied” with the 39-year-old’s actions, less than six months after his landslide victory against far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Just one in three French people, 34 per cent, said they were “satisfied “with Mr Macron’s actions as president in the poll published on Wednesday, up two percentage points in one month. Mr Macon is in Brussels today for a two day EU summit of the 28 member states.

REUTERS Emmanuel Macron struggles in polls as voters turn

His action plan to reform Europe has been incorporated into a road map put to leaders tomorrow by European Council President Donald Tusk. He is fast becoming the darling of Europe, winning over the likes of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as well as Germany’s Angela Merkel for his pro-EU policies. But it would appear voters are wanting him to focus his efforts at home, with 58 per cent of voters questioned in the Ipsos poll said France was “neither better nor worse off” since Mr Macron was sworn in as president in May.

GETTY Mr Macon is in Brussels today for a two day EU summit of the 28 member states

And 29 per cent of those interviewed said the country was “worse off” since Mr Macron took power, while just 13 per cent said that France was “better off”. The performance of the president’s right-hand man, conservative prime minister Edouard Philippe, is also being judged harshly by the French. Forty-nine per cent of those polled said they were “dissatisfied” with his actions as prime minister, while just 33 per cent expressed satisfaction with his performance.

Brussels EU summit in pictures Fri, October 20, 2017 The EU is expected to say that they will start internal preparatory work on a post-Brexit transition period and a future trade deal with Britain Play slideshow Getty Images 1 of 44 Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference on the second day of European Council meetings