他在法国大使馆国庆日庆典上欢呼雀跃地将公投称为“一次针对令人窒息的官僚主义旧体制的伟大的群众起义，这个体制的民主特征早已难以辨别。 ”引起一片嘘声。
Provoking boos at the French Embassy’s Bastille Day celebration, he hailed the referendum as “a great popular uprising against a stifling bureaucratic ancient regime (sic) whose democratic credentials had become very far from obvious.”