Macron's approval rate rises to 46 percent

French President Emmanuel Macron saw his popularity gaining momentum in November from a month earlier, a rise likely to give impetus to France's youngest head of state in modern history after month-long sliding public support, a poll showed on Sunday.

Macron's approval rate edged up to 46 percent this month, compared with 42 percent of respondents last month who said they were satisfied with his action, an IFOP survey for the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche said.

IFOP -- the French Institute of Public Opinion -- is an international polling and market research firm.

The centrist leader had maintained support for his multiform political camp "The Republic on the Move" and the right wing Republicans party.

In the left camp, he collected 41 percent of the satisfactory votes from the former ruling Socialist party and 22 percent for the hard left party "Unbowed France", the poll's figures showed.

After a short-lived honeymoon at the Elysee Palace, Macron, once the country's political star, saw his public support tumbling due to anger over the labor reform and the economic policy that critics say favor the rich.

"The beginning of this five-year term does not follow the cycles of opinion observed during the last two mandates. Before, when (the president's popularity) fell sharply, it did not recover," said Frederic Dabi, the ifop deputy general director.

IFOP poll questioned 1,964 respondents on Nov.10 and 18.