While Richard Ferrand intends to retain his position as President of the National Assembly, despite his indictment for "illegal capture of interests," the spokesman of the government Sibeth Ndiaye, invited to the microphone of Europe 1, defended his political path.

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The Elysee says to keep his confidence in Richard Ferrand. The president of the National Assembly has been indicted in the night of Wednesday to Thursday for "illegal taking of interests" in the Mutuelles de Bretagne case. In the wake, the fourth character of the state said he did not intend to resign from his post, and saying "determined to continue (his) mission".

"It is logical that the President of the Republic keeps him all his confidence, because he is a loyal man, right, which had an exemplary political course", reacted Thursday morning, at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk on Europe 1, Sibeth Ndiaye, the spokesperson of the government. "He is a man who, in the exercise of his duties, is absolutely irreproachable," she insists.