re: Emmanuel macron and Theresa May have approval ratings in the 20s in recent polling

Macron has pushed through some pretty unpopular reforms to make the French more competitive.

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France suffers two major afflictions, the Euro which made basic consumer goods more expensive, and the reforms that the communists pushed through after WW2.

The resistance, which was all talk, and no action, was almost entirely Communist and De Gaul was compelled to bring them into his government after the war. They proceeded to try and ruin France as much as they could with socialist reforms.