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Jean-Paul Delevoye, here in May 2017. Eric FEFERBERG / AFP

This is the big issue of the coming months for the government: the pension reform. Prime Minister must receive unions and employers this weekend. If the executive is determined to carry out its roadmap to the end in this sensitive issue, he promises to involve the French. A large consultation is announced and a reshuffle - the 5th since the arrival of Emmanuel Macron in power - should take place in the coming days. Jean-Paul Delevoye, who wrote the report on the pension reform, should join the team of Edouard Philippe.

Emmanuel Macron had slipped to journalists before the G7 in Biarritz: a "reorganization" of the government is in preparation. An adjustment more than a reshuffle that could take place before the government seminar Wednesday.

Jean-Paul Delevoye is expected to join the government while retaining his title of High Commissioner for Pension Reform, a hybrid solution that would allow him to attend Cabinet meetings and defend the bill in Parliament.

Former Minister of Public Service Jacques Chirac is close to Emmanuel Macron. He joined him very early on the En Marche adventure. But in Matignon, if this choice is not unanimous, Edouard Philippe intends to remain in the front line. The Prime Minister will chair the meeting with the social partners on Thursday and Friday, and he will announce the timetable for reform and consultation.

A Secretary of State could also join the Ministry of Transport and come to relieve Élisabeth Borne who cumulated with the cap of Minister of Ecology since the departure of François de Rugy.

A larger reshuffle would occur, but later. Several ministers could try their luck at the municipal elections of March 2020.