Business in the Macron team: a complicated parliamentary return for the majority
The Bourbon Palace, seat of the National Assembly, in May 2022 (photo illustration).
AFP - STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN
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The bad news accumulated on Monday, October 3 for Emmanuel Macron.
The secretary general of the Élysée, Alexis Kohler, and the French Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, have been implicated for “illegal taking of interests” in two separate cases.
The first was indicted, the second sent to trial before the Court of Justice of the Republic.
What controversy among the deputies, in full return to parliament.
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At the Bourbon Palace,
Aurélien Devernoix
“
Me, I would be Mr. Dupond-Moretti, I would leave, yes.
But now it belongs to him.
This is not a call for resignation, launched by the ecologist deputy Aurélien Taché, but it looks a lot like it.
This has the gift of annoying the deputy of the presidential camp Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade: "
I can no longer support this era, in which politicians are told to resign
a priori
, even before any legal decision has been taken. or be returned.
There are procedures in this country, there is a rule of law
, ”he argues.
In short, we must let justice take its course, this is the key phrase of the majority, which also comes back in the opposition, but with a nuance summed up by Laurent Jacobelli, deputy Rassemblement national: "
It is up to justice to do his job.
Then there is ethics and deontology, so little that this government has left.
Yes, the Head of State must arbitrate.
»
However, Emmanuel Macron does not seem ready to let go of his Secretary General and his Minister of Justice, renewed in their functions after the presidential election, even though the legal proceedings were already underway.
A state scandal, according to the rebellious deputy Ugo Bernalicis.
►Read also: France: indictment of the secretary general of the Élysée Alexis Kohler
“
We knew that Emmanuel Macron and the people around him were in collusion with financial interests, money interests, and there, that comes to light in two separate cases.
Perhaps there is work to be done on the dismantling of a certain number of mafia systems in this country
, ”he says.
Charges unlikely to move Emmanuel Macron, who in recent years has adopted a new course of action: no resignation without conviction.
►Also listen: Éric Dupond-Moretti referred to the CJR: "The symbol is terrible" (Anticor)
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