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In the United States and in European countries, the Benalla affair is followed with attention. For the foreign media, "the worst crisis" Emmanuel Macron's mandate sends the French president into "the old world", against which he had built his entire strategy of transparency and moralization of political life.
Foreign press had echoed last Thursday the revelations, the day before, the newspaper Le Monde on the case of Alexander Benalla. As the controversy swelled, the international spotlight was more focused on Emmanuel Macron, many articles echoing a "state affair" in the heart of the Elysee.
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"The Benalla affair, as it is called, became the most serious crisis of its young presidency", estimated the New York Times from July 23rd. The American daily went further: this case "gives ammunition" to the opposition while the silence of Emmanuel Macron fueled criticism against "his style of monarchical management", his opponents maintaining the idea of "a presidency opaque, insensitive and insular, closely peopled by a band of ultraloyalists ". A monarchical lexical field also used by the Corriere della Serra in Italy: this case shows "President Macron's tendency to manage power with monarchical righteousness, sometimes upsetting hierarchies."
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In the United Kingdom, The Guardian tells how Emmanuel Macron has since broken the silence on "the scandal of his bodyguard who badaulted protesters May 1 ", the British newspaper described as" bravado "the reaction of the French president when he said:" They can come and get me. I will answer the French. "How Macron's 'Swiss Army Knife' tarnished the president's reputation," the day before Guardian stated: "What's damaging to Macron is that instead of transparency and of the promised probity, the scandal resurrected the specter of the old times when the presidential teams acted outlawed, the Élysée being accused of trying to smother the incident ". Evoking "the fears (in France) of dissimulation, dysfunction and rottenness in the heart of the State", the British daily clearly places the case of Alexander Benalla in the wake of the old cases, real or supposed: the service of civic action at the time of General de Gaulle, the plays of Duck chained by the teams of President Georges Pompidou, diamonds Bokbada 1st that the Central African emperor would have offered to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing or the black cabinet of François Mitterrand.
Le Temps sums up Emmanuel Macron's crisis with a synthetic formula: "the revenge of the old world". "Since his election in May 2017, Emmanuel Macron speaks of" new world "," transparency "," moralization of political life ", ensuring that with him nothing would be as before. The Benalla affair is therefore likely to come back to him like a boomerang, as it evokes these "old world" affairs, when General de Gaulle had the Civic Action Service (SAC) or François Mitterrand instrumentalized for his benefit the rivalries between police and gendarmes ", says the Swiss daily, which considers that" Emmanuel Macron, who likes to describe himself as 'master of clocks', has temporarily lost control of the agenda. "
" The name of Alexandre Benalla will forever weigh on the mandate of Emmanuel Macron "
Same emotion in Germany. "President Macron is under pressure. When he took office, he announced that he would bring morality and transparency back into French politics, "recalls Die Welt whereas the Frankfurter Allgemeine considers that" the prejudice Macron's policy is already immense. His credibility as an exemplary head of state is scratched ".
Outre-quiévrain, Le Soir follows day by day the twists and turns of the affair. Thus, this Thursday, the Belgian daily takes the information of BFM-TV, confirmed by the Elysee, according to which, on July 19, Alexandre Benalla transmitted to Emmanuel Macron's special adviser, Ismaël Emelien, the images of CCTV that three senior officers of the Paris police headquarters had provided him. "These revelations will undermine the defense of the Elysee," concludes Le Soir who wrote the day before, that "the intervention of the French president in front of his troops and before the media Tuesday night" was " problematic in many ways "and" left a lot of questions open ". "The case of Benalla continues to shake the high spheres of the French state, and reveal its flaws," wrote the Belgian daily again.
In Italy, struck by the blockage of the National Assembly La Repubblica places less emphasis on the head of state than on the majority of the majority, whose weaknesses he perceives. "The movement founded by Emmanuel Macron has remained an empty shell that does not hold the shock of the scandal. In a few days, the same government that had triumphantly pbaded laws and decrees is forced to retreat to Parliament and suspend the announcement of its constitutional reform, "baderts the Italian daily, quoted by Courrier International . And to drive the point: "The scandal Benalla reveals the weaknesses of its dazzling rise to power, this 'hold-up of the century' led with a group of adventurers, during which he neutralized the traditional parties. But these begin to meditate their revenge.
Everywhere in the foreign press, this impression of a before and after Benalla dominates. This is notably what El Mundo writes in Spain: "The name of Alexandre Benalla will forever weigh on the mandate of Emmanuel Macron. The French society is astonished by the power that had accumulated, at only 26 years, Alexandre Benalla, tyrant who (…) opened the crisis more serious of the presidency "Emmanuel Macron.
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