Today
President François Hollande was again on the news and once more for the wrong
reasons.
This
time, a gossip magazine writes about a covert liaison the President has with a
young woman, in betrayal of his official relationship with the woman that is
considered the de facto First Lady of
France. And a number of pictures go with this revelation.
This
kind of behaviour shows poor political judgement. How could he believe the
liaison would remain secret? He, like everybody else, can change his mind and
look for love elsewhere. But when you are the president of a country you do
that in a clear and open way. You do not behave like a small boy, trying to
hide away from the public eye. You do not create the conditions for the media,
your wife and your political allies to catch you with the pants down. And also
for your adversaries to make ridicule of you.
And
when they catch you, you rise to the challenge. You accept the reality. You do
not invoke, if you are the leader of a country, the right to make political
mistakes in private.
Once
more, François Hollande has shown he is major political disappointment.
And
again he went down in the credibility ladder.
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