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Baroud d'honneur of a crisis that will have shaken the presidential majority in France, right and left defended Tuesday, without success, two motions of censorship targeting Emmanuel Macron on the Benalla affair, named after the former collaborator the head of state accused of violence. This dual challenge – a first since 1980 – of the responsibility of the government is "an alert" for the French president, according to the term of the boss of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure.
This "scandal is that of a head of state who has protected, who has privileged a man who has rendered him services "," barbouze if any, "and a government that has" abdicated "thundered the boss of the group Les Republicans (LR, right-wing opposition) Christian Jacob, defending the first motion
This case "will leave deep traces." Political and moral traces for the head of state and institutional traces in the organization of powers "
The president of the communists André Chbadaigne, defender of the motion of the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the party insubordinate France (LFI, radical left), estimated that" the Macron-Benalla affair allowed to lift the veil on reality the exercise of power by the President of the Republic "and" opened a wound that will not close ".
In his response, the head of government Édouard Philippe deplored" a political instrumentalisation "and a" desire to 'reach' the head of state through this affair and the filing of motions, the first since the election of Emmanuel Macron in May 2017.
There have been a hundred motions of censorship since 1958 but a it was only adopted in 1962, bringing down the government of Georges Pompidou.
The two motions had no chance of succeeding: LR has only 103 deputies and the left 63, therefore unable to gather the required majority 289 votes to bring down the government
The first motion – from LR – was voted by only 143 members. The second only won the vote of 74 deputies.
But they aimed above all to force the government to "explain" and to denounce a "lock" preventing "the truth" to emerge on the case which erupted around Alexandre Benalla, ex-Elysée collaborator prosecuted for violence against protesters on May 1 in Paris while attending parades as an observer in the police force. [19659003] The revelation of the case is the most serious political crisis suffered by Mr. Macron.
Benalla, "symptom" of the problems
The two motions are also an unexpected opportunity for the oppositions of to be reborn from their ashes, after the victory in the legislative elections of 2017 of the deputies of the presidential party LREM
"Your motions of censorship are nothing more than motions of blockage", launched to the opposition the Prime Minister.
Edouard Philippe has notably voiced "the hope" of the opposition on all sides "to slow the pace of the transformation of the country", promising: "We will not slow down, we will not let go, we will go to the end of our project". 19659003] On the merits of the case, he ruled that "democracy had worked" with administrative, judicial and parliamentary inquiries.
The power has continually sought to minimize the Benalla affair, baduring that it was only an "individual drift" and not a "state affair."
Emmanuel Macron was released a week ago from his silence before a small circle of officials of his camp. "The only person responsible for this case is me and I alone!", He then launched. Since then, he has evoked a "storm in a glbad of water" and seeks to turn the page, while he recoils in several polls.
His troops denounce a "political instrumentalization". "Attempt to bring down a government and reforms because a chargé de mission (Alexandre Benalla, ed) has slipped?" tweeted Gabriel Attal, the spokesperson of LREM.
"Benalla is not the cause of the problems, it is the symptom," said Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the LFI, on Tuesday, denouncing a "presidential monarchy"
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