This was asked by the president at a press conference in Belgrade on Monday.

Emmanuel Macron said Monday he had "asked the Prime Minister to bring clarity" on the case of Rugy, because "I do not take decisions on the basis of revelations but facts", he explained, when a press conference in Belgrade with his Serbian counterpart.

"There is still in our country the right of the defense, the possibility of answer, otherwise it becomes the Republic of the denunciation". "I asked the Prime Minister to proceed in this direction, and so proposals will be made and educated by the facts" in the case of the expensive feasts of François de Rugy when he was President of the National Assembly, explained The head of state.