Because Macron had to clarify that he was not the lover of Benalla

The Republic of Macron trembles, a little over a year after his election, the French president stumbles into the first scandal of his management. Scandal that does not concern him personally, but that puts him in a great embarrbadment vis-à-vis his government and his people.

Last week there were deadly jumps for not lifting the dust, but eventually the president had to give up. he spoke to the deputies of his majority gathered at the House of Latin America: "Alexander Benalla is not my lover and has no nuclear codes". Confronting history with an ill-concealed irony, but what does the first French citizen talk about?

Guardaspalle and the Right Arm

Defining with absolute certainty who is Alexandre Benalla and what exactly he does for Emanuel Macron is not easy. What is certain is that labeling it as a simple bodyguard would be reductive. Apparently, the 26-year-old would fall into the circle of close aides of the president, so as to force him to say no, he does not have the nuclear codes.

The facts about the bodyguard, also called "Rambo" for his attitude is obviously too combative, dating back to May 1, during the march on the occasion of the Workers Party, Benalla claiming to be a police officer (which is therefore not without reason) with a lot of riot gear that has not yet been clarified and why he uses violence against two protesters

The day after the new arrives in the presidential halls, which of course carefully suspend the lieutenant-colonel of the reserve gendarmerie for two weeks.

"This is not my lover"

But the beat of Rambo is resumed and the movies, towards mid-July they end up in the hands of World, which publishes them and triggers what the leader of the left, Luc Melanchon, has called "French Watergate". Yes, because a motion of no confidence against the government would have already been presented by the Republican deputies

It is because the scandal would not stop in Benalla itself, now obviously dismissed and in detention, but it would concern more sanctions, judged inadequate by Le Monde, as well as the political opponents of Macron and most French.

In the case of the defendants, therefore, the president, who faced yesterday the question "If they are looking for a manager, the just responsible, it's me and me alone.I'm me who trusted Alexandre Benalla.I am the one who confirmed the sanction.It is not the Republic of the scapegoats, the Republic of hatred.We can not be leaders only in the good fortune.So they want a manager, it's in front of you.They pick me up.I answer the French people, the sovereign people. "

On the coach with the champions of the world

An admission that had now become unavoidable and that attempts to appease the rumors that Benalla would be regularly in his place if Le Monde had broadcast the video because it was alongside Macron at all events after the 1st May, from the entry of Simone Veil to the Pantheon at the parade on July 14 in Paris, until what he finds, still in the streets of the capital, on bus that crossed the Champs Elysees until the victorious return of the French team to the world championships Russian

The condemnation of Macron is harsh in the words "What happened the first May is serious, serious. For me, it was a disappointment, a betrayal. No one next to me or in my closet has ever been protected or subtracted from the rules and laws of the Republic, "and it will certainly be true that Benalla does not have nuclear codes, but on the other hand he gets a functional apartment on the elegant Elysee Quai Branly (particularly chic Parisian street), a car with driver, siren and police symbols (which, as already mentioned, would not be entitled ) and the rank of lieutenant-colonel at age 26 in record time

Farewell to the government without spot

All that makes you suspect that his role was very different from what they want to make believe in the A case has ended in a court where Benalla will have to answer to five different crimes, including "violence by a person in charge of a public service mission", "usurpation of functions" and "usurpation of reserved signs. to the public authority ", p a political crisis that is straining Macron's promise in the election campaign to lead a "flawless" government that has already caused enormous problems after the suspension of the work of the National Assembly, where a draft constitutional reform was discussed. 19659003] Interior Minister Gerard Collomb will also have to answer questions from a special parliamentary inquiry commission and several seats in the same parliament that his leader is asking him to have already learned the day after the incident and not to have reported. Meanwhile, Macron's intervention does not save him from a 39% drop in polls, a historic minimum of his management.

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