69% of French say demonstrations justified

The right-leaning French weekly Le Express has published an opinion poll regarding the CPE.

For 69% of those probed, the anti-CPE demonstrations were justified, whilst 28% disagreed. The survey was carried out between the 17th and 18th of March with a sample of 1004 people, representative of the French population from 15 years of age.

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