Macron faces his first motions of censorship for the violent case of his exguardaespalda

PARIS.- No chance of success but with a political impact, the government of the French president,


Emmanuel Macron
faces two motions of censorship by
the case of a collaborator who struck two protesters during a demonstration

Pushed by the right and left, the two motions are the first filed in the French National Assembly against the government since the overwhelming victory of 2017.

However, there is little chance that they will prosper since the presidential party, The Republic in March (LREM), has a large majority in the lower house of Parliament.

The debate in the Assembly will nonetheless give the opposition a strong platform against the government and its management of the scandal unleashed on July 18 when it came to light in a video where he was seen
Alexandre Benalla beating two protesters during a demonstration.

Benalla was Macron's bodyguard during the election campaign and after the victory was hired at the seat of the presidency, where he was one of the most loyal collaborators of the president until the La motion is not going to "solve everything" but can "at least restore the republican order," said the leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has badociated with socialists and communists. to obtain the 58 signatures necessary to present his request.

The Paris prosecutor's office opened a second investigation into Benalla, focusing on other possible abuses on the same day at the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, revealed by the newspaper Libération on week-end, including a video .

Macron came out a week ago from his silence and badumed his responsibility for the case, but he did it during an act in which he was not present members of his party.

In the history of the V French Republic, created in 1958, a motion of censure flourished only once, in 1962, which overthrew the government of Georges Pompidou

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AFP and ANSA Agencies