France’s centrist government faces confidence votes from both the left and right Tuesday over the damaging scandal surrounding a top aide to President Emmanuel Macron who was filmed manhandling demonstrators.
Since Macron’s Republic On The Move (LREM) party holds a comfortable majority in the lower-house National Assembly, the two votes have no chance of bringing down the government.
But they condemn what opposition lawmakers call a “constitutional crisis” over revelations that Macron’s office knew that a top security aide, Alexandre Benalla, had roughed up protesters during May Day demonstrations in Paris.
Alleging an attempted cover-up, opposition parties are demanding that the government “explain itself”…
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