Balding French President Francois Hollande pays his hairdresser $132,000 a year

If you were shocked at Hillary Clinton’s $800 haircut earlier this year, wait till you hear how much French President Francois Hollande spends to style his thinning strands.

According to Le Canard Enchaîné, since Hollande took office in 2012, he has paid hairstylist Olivier B nearly €10,000 (or about $11,000) of French taxpayer money every month to handle the upkeep of his hair. That’s a total of $132,000 a year, more than what European parliament members make and about 75 per cent of Hollande’s annual salary.

The news comes at a time when the French public and his own administration have heavily criticized Hollande’s policies and are upset with the continuously high unemployment rate and the multiple terror attacks that have shaken the nation. His disapproval rating plummeted to 90 per cent among French voters last week, the worst score of any French president since such surveys were first conducted over 30 years ago.

However, at least one person appears to be on Hollande’s side. Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll told Le Canard Enchaîné that the six-figure salary was a necessary one. “Everyone gets haircuts,” he said. “This hairdresser had to abandon his salon and he’s on tap 24 hours a day.”

For a president who promised to do away with the excesses of his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy and pledged to be a “normal” president, his haircuts are anything but.

Here are a few hairstyles that Twitter users thought would be more worthy of Olivier B’s price tag.

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