Paris, October 13 (RHC)-- A recent survey has revealed that nearly two-thirds of the French people want President Francois Hollande to step down as the country is wrestling with a record high jobless rate.

According to the poll conducted by Paris-based polling firm IFOP with a sampling of 1,002 French adults, 62 percent of the respondents said they would like to see Hollande resign before the end of his term in 2017.

Fifty-four percent of those surveyed said they want Hollande, who is the most unpopular French president since World War II, to dissolve the lower house of parliament, while 41 percent said they would like him to change Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has only been in office for five months.

Meanwhile, 62 percent of the respondents said Hollande should choose increasing the purchasing power of ordinary French people as his number one priority. France, Europe's second-biggest economy, is battling political and economic crises seen as the worst since Hollande took power more than two years ago.