After the scandal over the bodyguard: the motion of censure against the Macron government failed

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Z Two weeks after the announcement of the case involving a violent bodyguard headed by the head of state Emmanuel Macron, two mistrust motions in Parliament failed. In the National Assembly, the demands of right and left bourgeois parties against the central government were far from obtaining the required majority, said Tuesday evening the People's Assembly.

The vote was preceded by a heated debate. Prime Minister Édouard Philippe confronted Macron: "Your motion of censure is nothing more than a blockade motion," the prime minister told opposition representatives. Macron security personnel committed an unacceptable individual error. There were penalties. "Democracy worked."

According to the National Assembly – it is the lower house of Parliament – the civil rights application came to 143 votes – the threshold required was 289 votes. The motion presented by the Socialists and two other left parties has reached only 74 votes

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The government camp with the presidential party Republic On March and the MoDem central party comes on jointly 358 of the 577 seats in the People's Assembly. Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure also acknowledged that he was not trying to oust Philippe's government, which had been in power for more than a year: "He (the motion ) is a warning. "

This is the first time that the Philippe government had to face such a vote. The case surrounding Benalla, who has been dismissed from his post, who beat demonstrators on May 1 and ran against the judicial investigations, is causing big waves in France. Critics speak of a state affair. Without the revelation by the press, the incidents would be a well-kept secret, said the head of the conservative Republican party, Christian Jacob.