Mr Macron’s numbers have improved in recent months, prompting suggestions that he may have turned the corner after a tricky year – but the Elabe poll suggested he is by no means out of the woods. The survey puts Mr Macron’s approval rating at 28 percent, down three points compared with last month.
By contrast, 67 percent of those asked said they disapproved of the job the millionaire former banker was doing.
The poll of 1,002 people was carried out between July 30 and 31.
Intriguingly, the results contrast sharply with a Harris poll also published today, which indicated Mr Macron’s approval rating was a much healthier 41 percent, while just 59 percent disapproved.
Mr Macron’s popularity bounced back somewhat following the European elections in May, sparking hopes of a resurgence.
However, the latest numbers seem to back up his own claims that the anger symbolised by the yellow vest, or Gilets Jaunes, demonstrations has yet to subside.
Speaking to reporters last month, Mr Macron said: “There are profound problems in our country that are related to injustice, to the economic difficulties we have known for a very long time.
“I do not believe at all that what at one time created the sincere anger of a part of the population is behind us.
“I think that there is a part to which we have been able to answer, there is a part to which we have not yet answered because it takes time, there is also anger to which there is no answer, not necessarily immediate answers.
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His popularity also took a knock after one of his bodyguards was identified by Le Monde as being responsible for beating up a young protester during May Day Demonstrations in Paris last July while impersonating a police officer.
Political scientist Stephane Rozes told French newspaper L’Express: “It is a questioning of Emmanuel Macron, accused of abandoning the control of the destiny of our country.”
Speaking in advance of this year’s May Day protests, Dr Joseph Downing, an LSE Fellow in Nationalism at the London School of Economics’ European Institute, told Express.co.uk the yellow vest demonstration had caught Mr Macron off guard.
He said: “When they first started he was absent from the scene totally.
“He’s been left rattled and he has not got the same sort of swagger he had previously.
“His authority has drained away.
“When he came in he was supposed to be the freshest thing on the menu, a reformer, but he’s failed to do that.
“In France, the Presidency has something of a mystical aura about it and people are always looking back to Charles de Gaulle, or Francois Mitterrand.
“Macron has tried to carry it off, but never very well frankly, much like Sarkozy before him.”