Trust in International Political Leaders
Out of the twelve political leaders included in the CBOS survey only four were considered to be more trustworthy than not. Virtually half of all respondents (49%) – so by far the greatest number – could put their trust in Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, while over one in three could trust Emmanuel Macron (36%) or Giorgia Meloni (35%). However, the French president was also distrusted virtually twice as often as the Italian prime minister (27% and 14% respectively). The fourth leader to elicit more positive than negative reactions was UK prime minister Keir Starmer (16% as against 11%), who was also the least recognisable of the politicians on the list, with 55% of respondents not knowing who he is.
