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More than one in two French people (55%) would refuse to enter into a relationship with someone whose political opinions are radically opposed to theirs, reveals a survey. Even for one night without a tomorrow, nearly six out of ten French people (58%) are not ready to make concessions in this regard.
Do you have strong political convictions and enjoy debating around this subject? Be careful if you have dates planned between the two tours. Because according to this Ifop* study, the party to which you feel closest or the name of the candidate you are about to slip into the polls could deal a fatal blow to your budding idyll.
And the French do not intend to make concessions about their political convictions. This survey tells us, for example, that 20% of respondents have already broken up with someone because of political differences. A rate that even rises to 48% among the youngest (18-24 years). Gen Z also appears intractable on this subject. 50% of 18-24 year olds have already made the decision to refuse an intimate relationship with a person with very different political ideas, when they liked the latter (22% for the national average) 56% have chosen not to deepen a relationship ( 38% for the national average).
This survey also reveals that people displaying far-right ideas are those who arouse the most rejection (65%), followed by far-left sympathizers (57%). “The number of couples who do not tie because of “political differences” remains limited, but in the future, the question is likely to arise more assiduously if we judge by the strong sensitivity of young people on this point.“, advances the investigation.
More than half of the French women surveyed (70%) also affirm that they would categorically refuse to get into a relationship with a person who intends to vote for the Reconquest candidate! Eric Zemmour. All genres combined, the percentage of respondents sharing this reluctance is 64%.
The other side of the coin: the French seem not to escape the practices of “wokefishing” either, that is to say the fact of meeting a person who does not hesitate to lie about his values or his political convictions for “better seduce”.
According to this Ifop poll, the proportion of people acknowledging having posed as someone with progressive ideas (for example by defending feminist or anti-racist values) is three times higher among men (16%) than among women ( 6%).