Poll reveals French anticipate "major social crisis"

More results from a poll set to be published in Mondays Liberation are now coming in.

Tomorrows poll reveals that some 71% of French now believe that in the anti-CPE turbulences exists "a major social crisis which can become extensive during weeks which come".

The survey was carried out by the LH2 pollsters between March the 17th and 18th.

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