{"id":552181,"date":"2025-11-06T04:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/552181\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T04:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:50:13","slug":"macron-is-frances-worst-president-just-ask-his-old-mentor-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/552181\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron is France\u2019s \u2018worst\u2019 president. Just ask his old mentor. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minc, an influential businessman who has advised multiple French presidents dating back to Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand in the 1980s, was one of Macron\u2019s earliest backers. The 76-year-old advised Macron, whose office declined to comment for this story, before his 2017 victory and during his first term, which Minc said wasn\u2019t too bad. <\/p>\n<p>But their relationship slowly deteriorated as Macron made what Minc he believes were a series of missteps and surrounded himself with \u201can incredibly mediocre team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two stopped speaking shortly after the president called for an ill-advised snap election last year. Today, Minc is perhaps most scathing of the growing number of former Macron allies-turned-critics.<\/p>\n<p>Minc\u2019s critiques are much more personal than those of, say, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-political-center-implodes-emmanuel-macron-allies-jump-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gabriel Attal and Edouard Philippe<\/a>, two former prime ministers who spoke out against Macron last month at the height of France\u2019s recent political crisis. Minc says Macron\u2019s spiraling mistakes since his reelection in 2022 are rooted in narcissism, as the president believes \u2014 per Minc \u2014 that he is smart and cunning enough to solve any problem thrown his way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMacron is in denial of reality \u2026 He is crushed by his own psychology,\u201d said Minc.<\/p>\n<p>Others who know Macron have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-emmanuel-macron-power-snap-election-marine-le-pen-national-rally-eu-jordan-bardella-francois-bayrou-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compared him<\/a>\u00a0to an inveterate gambler who is always convinced he\u2019s just a win away from taking down the house, no matter how many losses came before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minc, an influential businessman who has advised multiple French presidents dating back to Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand in the 1980s,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1194,31,32,5898,33184,33,34,2000,299,36,24402,53753,42,44,5111,770,47,7338,12338,6647,657,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-552181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-democracy","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-donald-tusk","12":"tag-edouard-philippe","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-emmanuel-macron","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-french-political-crisis","19":"tag-gabriel-attal","20":"tag-jordan-bardella","21":"tag-marine-le-pen","22":"tag-parliament","23":"tag-poland","24":"tag-poll","25":"tag-rule-of-law","26":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","27":"tag-stability","28":"tag-ukraine","29":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}