French President Emmanuel Macron looks on during a joint news conference with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov at Euxinograd residence, near Varna, Bulgaria, August 25, 2017. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
PARIS (Reuters) - Social media commentators and political opponents of Emmanuel Macron tore into the French president on Friday after it emerged that he spent 26,000 euros ($30,901) on makeup during his first 100 days in office.
Macron won a landslide second-round election victory in May over far-right leader Marine Le Pen but his early popularity has proven short-lived, in part because of cuts in housing benefit and other sacrifices he is imposing on the French people as he fights to reduce a big budget deficit.
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