Macron admitted to being overconfident and making mistakes

French President Emmanuel Macron admitted on February 19 that excessive self-confidence had repeatedly led him to serious miscalculations in decision-making.

"Every time I was overconfident, I made mistakes, big mistakes," Politico newspaper quoted him as saying.

At the same time, the French leader did not disclose examples of such mistakes.

The publication clarifies that the politician has been repeatedly accused of arrogance, including after his unsuccessful decision to hold early parliamentary elections in 2024, as a result of which his party lost the majority of seats.

In turn, Macron's ex-adviser Alain Mink called the French leader a narcissist whose recklessness "jeopardized French institutions" and strengthened the position of the extreme right ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

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The day before, Macron called freedom of speech on the Internet complete nonsense in the absence of transparency of social media algorithms. In his opinion, modern algorithms secretly direct users from one destructive material to another.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in turn, compared Macron's statement on freedom of speech on the Internet with the words of singer Alla Pugacheva about her marriage to singer Philip Kirkorov. She also expressed the hope that the revelations of the French leader would not end there.

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