95% of French people want a change in French institutions and the French Constitution

The APROFED association is getting back to you this weekend to share with you a survey conducted by Ipsos and CESI Ecole d’Ingénieurs, dating from March 2025, on the perception of the French and their relationship to politics.

It can be read that while 7 out of 10 French people affirm their attachment to the institutions of the Fifth Republic, 95% express a desire to adapt or transform them. Indeed, the desire for more or less radical changes regarding the institutions of the Fifth Republic and its constitution, brings together almost the entire population . In detail, the majority of French people (59%) wish to adapt them without radically transforming them, more than one in three French people (36%) want them to be reformed in depth and finally 5% wish to maintain them as they are today.

This desire for change is a sign for the association that it is time to propose to the French the project of a federal France (see For a federal France by Grégory Berkovicz – APROFED ) A system combining national, regional and local within the framework of a composite State, where decision-making would be done as close as possible to the population and no longer centralised in Paris.

This desire for change was recently raised again at the 29th conference of the presidents of the ORs (Outermost Regions) in Réunion, in April 2025, who requested the reinforced presence not of their respective States but of the EU, leading a journalist, Richard Werly, to suggest bringing together the ORs within a single status, of the federated State type, managed by a federal-type EU , advocating the position of the association to extend the status of federated State, not only to New Caledonia but to all the overseas communities, French and others (Spanish, Portuguese, etc.). See the article at the following link: ORs: should France leave budgetary powers to the EU?

Despite a strong interest in politics, with 60% of French people reporting an interest, feelings toward it are overwhelmingly negative. The terms “disappointment” (63%), “anger” (33%), and “disgust” (26%) are frequently cited.

An overwhelming majority of French people say they belong to a dissatisfied France (48%) but not necessarily angry, while 48% say they are angry and very anti-establishment. Only 3% say they belong to a satisfied and peaceful France.

This is why, once again, the association proposes returning to direct democracy by drawing lots at the local level (municipalities, interco) and indirect democracy for the other levels with the establishment of control of elected representatives by means of a citizen-initiated referendum (RIC).

Another key element is that the French prefer leaders capable of compromise and perceive political life as too radicalized , reflecting a dissatisfied and angry France. Indeed, if former Prime Minister Edouard Balladur said that France hardly has a culture of compromise, this is not the will of the French today. Indeed, a large majority of French people say they prefer a political figure who is ready to compromise (64%) to one who remains faithful to his ideas but refuses to do so (36%).

This point is all the more true in New Caledonia, where during the first round of the 2024 legislative elections, a large majority of voters abstained, thus choosing the 3rd way, rather than that of the extremes (see The 3rd way is not put aside – APROFED )

A large majority of French people (64%) believe that French political life is too full of radical ideas and behaviors. This does not help move things forward and improve the country’s situation. The remaining 36%, on the other hand, believe that there is not enough radical behavior to find new ways to move things forward and improve the country’s situation.

This is why federalism proves to be the solution. Based on compromise , its implementation within French society would constitute a true revolution, putting an end to a system implemented since 1793 consisting of centralizing everything and deciding from Paris in order to give back to the French the right to decide for themselves in the areas affecting them most closely, leaving to the State the care only of sovereign powers, at least until the final transformation of the EU itself into a federal structure. The establishment of a federal France thus putting an end to a period of so-called national transition, of absolute centralization, which led the French to several military conflicts causing several million deaths, to arrive at a functioning and a type of society specific to man which, with federalism, constitutes the logical continuation of tribal and feudal systems.

Find the full survey at the following link:

The French are attached to the institutions and constitution of the Fifth Republic but are seeking change | Ipsos

We wish you a good read and remind you that federalism is the only solution to reconcile unity in diversity.