While the head of the LREM group in the Assembly is under fire from critics after the publication of a note sent to Emmanuel Macron in which he proposes tracks of government casting in the event of reshuffle, Christian Jacob accuses the Élysée of to have organized the flight to weaken Edouard Philippe. 

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Revealed by Marianne , the document shook the majority LREM. Friday, the weekly published a note on a cabinet reshuffle written by the leader of the deputies LREM Gilles Le Gendre and addressed at the end of May to Emmanuel Macron. A note in which he proposes tracks of government casting in the event of reshuffle, while scratching in passing Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, "who takes care not to intervene in the affairs of the majority", and by proposing Jean-Yves Le Drian or Bruno Le Maire to succeed him in Matignon. Sunday, in the Grand rendez-vous Europe1 / Les Échos / Cnews, the president of LR Christian Jacob judges this episode "hallucinating", and assures that this leak in the press was directly orchestrated by the Elysée to weaken the head of government. 

A leak "to organize the pressure against Édouard Philippe"

For Christian Jacob, this new crisis in a majority recently weakened by the creation of two new parliamentary groups is the sign that Emmanuel Macron "has no hold". While the group president "must be the one who puts the cement, there he plays the apprentice fireworker", he scratched, "and sends notes to the president of the Republic" that the latter "hurries to leak in the press to destabilize his Prime Minister. " 

"Everyone knows very well that it is the Élysée which is leaking to organize the pressure against Édouard Philippe and settle his account to Gilles Le Gendre at the same time", still insists Christian Jacob.