Macron faces no confidence votes amid security officer scandal
The votes are expected to be easily won by the government, although the issue marks the president’s biggest crisis.
French president Emmanuel Macron’s government is facing two votes of no confidence brought by opposition parties in response to a political uproar triggered by a former presidential security aide seen beating a protester in a video.
The government is expected to easily win the votes, mostly symbolic, at France’s lower house of parliament later on Tuesday.
Mr Macron’s centrist party has a large majority at the National Assembly.
Motions were brought by the conservative party and MPs from the left and far-left.
The scandal broke after Mr Macron’s security aide was identified on camera beating a young protester during a May Day protest while wearing a police helmet.
Questions about the government’s handling of the affair turned it into Mr Macron’s biggest political crisis since he took office last year.
