Note from MP Gilles Le Gendre on the reshuffle ulcers Macronie

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After the creation of two new groups in the National Assembly, the En Marche Republic is shaken by the revelation of a note written by the boss of the deputies walkers. In this private letter sent to Emmanuel Macron and published by Marianne magazine, Gilles Le Gendre submits a casting for the next government reshuffle. He notably proposes Jean-Yves Le Drian or Bruno Le Maire to replace Édouard Philippe.

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This leak weakens even more the deputy of Paris who will have to face today the grumbling of a part of his troops. " The deputies are furious ... ", observes, lucid and bitter, the entourage of Gilles Le Gendre who claims to be the victim of a "  real stab in the back  ".

This June 8, the weekly meeting of the group at the Assembly will be agitated. But the deputy in tweed jackets intends to explain and especially defend his chair while calls to depart are increasing. A sentence brought back by Marianne makes his colleagues particularly tingling: in his note, Gilles Le Gendre estimates that there is "  no credible deputy  " for Matignon.

Its internal adversaries take advantage of this to try to bring it down and the candidates for its succession hide less and less, like the deputies Olivia Grégoire, Yaël Braun-Pivet or Roland Lescure. Too kind, not political enough, according to his detractors, the former journalist never managed to impose himself at the head of a plethoric group of 300 deputies, a group which lost the absolute majority after the loss of a twenty elected officials.

But the departure of Gilles Le Gendre will not change anything, according to a minister: "  we must not think that by putting someone else, it will be better  ".

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