Poll: 62.5% oppose Yair Lapid's cuts

The public do not like the economic cuts and are very angry with Finance Minister Yair Lapid, according to a survey carried out in Israel Today newspaper by New Wave Research.

According to the survey, 62.5% of respondents oppose the decrees, but at least some of them think they were necessary (38.6%). The significance of this fact is that the public believe it was necessary to take some economic measures, but do not support the actual proposed measures by Lapid.

This insight is strengthened by the pessimism about the outcome of the economic measures: 40.6% of respondents believe their situation will worsen as a result, and only 16.6% are optimistic about the situation in two years.

The biggest detractors to the economic measures are aged 54-45: 74.8% of them have declared their opposition to the decrees. Those who least oppose are young people - aged 18-24, only 46.1% express a stand against the economic cuts.

Respectively, the understanding that the economic cuts are necessary at this time is more common among young people aged 18-24 (50.6%) than among older people 35-44: only 26% of them think the decrees are necessary.

Regarding the question whether their personal situation will improve or worsen, the most pessimistic are aged 35-44 (54.2%) and greater optimism is registered by those aged 25-34 (24%).

Geographically, there is almost no difference between the opponents, and the resistance crosses all income levels to the same extent with those with low income lead the resistance (close to 70%).

According to the survey, the finance minister's image was badly damaged due to the decrees: 53.9% of respondents stated that their confidence in Yair Lapid is small, only 7.8% said their confidence in him increased.

Women are more angry than men, and the most angry are people aged 45-54, 64.5%. In the income parameter, those who stated that their income is far above the average were extreme in both directions and also led among those who believe that their trust in Lapid increased (15.3%) and among those who said their trust had decreased (53.4%).

And how did Binyamin Netanyahu cross this tumultuous week?

18.3% said their trust in the prime minister decreased, 14% said it increased, but the vast majority, 61.8% say their trust in Netanyahu remains unchanged.

The support for Netanyahu increased among men (19.5%), aged 45-54 (17.5%) and residents of the south and lowland (20.2%). Those who favor him less are those with an income a bit below average (26.4%), Haredim (29%) and aged 35-44 (29.3%).

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