Gilles Legendre, the patron of deputies La Republique en Marche (LREM), and Stanislas Guerini, general delegate of LREM, here at the National Assembly. (Illustration) - LUDOVIC MARIN-POOL / SIPA

A bit like making up a football team for the next match to come, Gilles Le Gendre, the boss of the LREM deputies, would have decided to make his list for the future government. The Mayor would be in Matignon despite a “weak charisma.”, Castaner in Defense, Le Drian in the Interior and the returning Manuel Valls in Foreign Affairs.

This casting, according to notes obtained by the weekly Marianne, the deputy of Paris presented it at the end of May to the President of the Republic, according to the magazine. Exchanges which are customary but which have not failed to raise a wave of criticism.

The idea of ​​changing Prime Minister, an Edouard Philippe who proves to be rather popular, goes rather badly with certain walking deputies.

Group meeting Tuesday

To the point that some have strongly clashed their leader in the National Assembly, like Bruno Questel, elected from Eure, who split a lapidary tweet, deeming "unbearable" these distribution proposals of posts. The latter would see another change of head, but this time at the head of the LREM deputies.

Grandeur and decadence; unbearable https://t.co/YQzhfucGAp via @MarianneleMag

- Bruno Questel (@BQuestel) June 5, 2020

“We discover that Gilles Le Gendre therefore wants to replace the whole government (….). I have no doubt that he will explain this to the deputies, ”adds Aurore Bergé, close to the Prime Minister.

If in a message to his colleagues Gilles Le Gendre emphasizes that Marianne's article contains "many untruths and biased interpretations, each of which will be able to understand the political intentions", the group meeting on Tuesday may however be strong restless.

This controversy comes in an already tense context for LREM which lost fourteen deputies in May with the creation of a 9th group on the left wing, Ecologie Démocratie Solidarité, then a tenth group on its right wing, Agir ensemble, which remains in the majority. While there were 314 at the start of the legislature, walkers and relatives are only 281 today in the Assembly. What weaken their leader a little more.

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