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Confidence in Hollande tumbles to 33 pct in latest poll

Xinhua, July 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Few French people expressed positive opinions about President Francois Hollande's ability to preserve calm at home after truck attack in Nice last week despite intensified security measures imposed since last year's assaults, a poll showed on Monday.

Confidence in the Socialist leader to win the battle against terrorism tumbled to 33 percent of favorable opinions, down 19 points from support ratings reported after last year's two deadly attacks, ifop poll for the right-wing daily Le Figaro showed.

In a further sign of growing public anger over the government's failed security policy to guarantee people's safety, a packed crowd gathering at la Promenade des Anglais in Nice to mourn the 84 people killed last Thursday jeered at Prime Minister Manuel Valls who joined the mass to observe a one-minute silence.

Video broadcast by BFMTV news channel showed the crowd shouting "Criminals" and "Resignation."

The truck attack committed by a 31-year-old French man from Tunisian origin fuelled critics over the government's ability to face terrorism challenge. Endit