article_snippet: ’s most senior aide regularly mocked Nicolas Sarkozy as a ‘dwarfish Napoleon’, an ‘airhead’ and a ‘nutter’, airhead was claimed last night.
article_snippet: Adviser Patrick Buisson, 65, was credited with steering Mr Sarkozy into the Elysee Palace, where Mr Sarkozy served between 2007 and 2012.
article_snippet: Mr Buisson regularly mocked Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr Buisson has been claimed .
article_snippet: Mr Buisson, who is an expert on opinion polls, said Mr Sarkozy could 'do nothing without Mr Sarkozy' and would call Mr Sarkozy all the time. '
article_snippet: It was the Dwarf' or 'the Little One', Mr Buisson would tell colleagues after receiving a call from Mr Sarkozy.
article_snippet: Mr Buisson was viewed as a 'compass' and 'genius' by Mr Sarkozy, despite also being referred to as a 'nutter' or 'airhead'.
article_snippet: Mr Buisson would not think twice about slamming the phone down on Mr Sarkozy, saying: 'I'm having lunch, you're bothering me'.
article_snippet: Mr Buisson would also put Mr Sarkozy voice on speaker, and laugh about Mr Sarkozy with friends, saying: 'Mr Sarkozy can do nothing without Mr Sarkozy, Naboleon'.
article_snippet: Authors Ariane Chemin and Vanessa Schneider, who both write for Le Monde, said Mr Sarkozy would phone Mr Buisson for 'reassurance' more than Mr Sarkozy wives.
article_snippet: Mr Buisson fell out with Mr Sarkozy last year, after Mr Buisson emerged that Mr Buisson had recorded many of their conversations without the politician's consent.