The right arm of the Head of State since 2017 was indicted on September 23 for illegal taking of interests in the investigation into his links with the shipowner MSC.

He remains at his post, we learned Monday at the Elysée.

In addition, the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) on Monday ordered a trial for the Keeper of the Seals, accused of having taken advantage of his function to settle scores with magistrates whom he had opposed when he was a lawyer.

For the head of the LR deputies Olivier Marleix, the "maintenance in office at the Elysée" of Alexis Kohler "would be an insult to the judicial institution".

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"Emmanuel Macron has always been surrounded by permanent suspicions of racketeering, pantouflage and conflicts of interest. By keeping with him such a character whose role is so powerful in the affairs of France, Emmanuel Macron takes a heavy responsibility", said on Twitter the president of the RN group at the Assembly Marine Le Pen.

"In one day, indictment of the main collaborator of the Head of State and the Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals. I look forward to the calls for their resignations from the deputies of the relative majority", has tweeted the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure (Editor's note the dismissal of Mr. Dupond-Moretti before the CJR is not an indictment).

"Can we imagine the secretary general of the Elysée being indicted? The trials for illegal taking of interest are decidedly a great classic of macronist power. Exemplary behavior at the highest responsibilities is a democratic requirement", reacted the head of Générations Sophie Taillé-Polian, with the hashtag "#Resignation".

For the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot, "Macron's protege will have to face his fear: to be accountable!".

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"Between Kohler and Dupond-Moretti on the same day, President Macron must now choose: to be President of the Republic or clan leader. Faced with the democratic collapse that threatens here as elsewhere, his choices will weigh heavily," said the ecologist deputy. Benjamin Lucas.

"The one Emmanuel Macron's entourage calls the President of the Republic's AK47 is jammed," said Senator LR Alain Houpert again.

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