A majority of French people support sending ground troops to fight the Islamic State in Syria, an opinion poll revealed yesterday.
According to an Institute Français D’opinion Publique (IFOP) poll for Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper some 56 per cent of those questioned said they support a ground operation in Syria, while 43 per cent opposed it, while one percent were unsure.
Some 64 per cent of the centre-right voters supported the ground operation while 59 per cent of the centre-left said they support their country’s ground intervention.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said: “If France launches airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, it would take place under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, in other words, in self-defence.”
French fighter jets participate in international coalition airstrikes against Islamic State sites in Iraq, but the government refuses to participate in Syria.
The poll was conducted by telephone on September 11-12 among 1,005 people over the age of 18 and had a margin of error of 1.8 per cent.
Unless otherwise stated in the article above, this work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them. What does that mean? For other permissions, please contact us.
