You have two options:
- your economic policy is such that your country can stand on its own two feet, even if barely.
- your economic policy is such that if you don't get a bailout from abroad, everything blows up in your face.
The first one is "good, even if controversial". The second one is "horrible enough that will blow up without a bailout"
So, yes, if a leftist leader needed a massive bailout, their reforms would be considered bad.