The LREM majority in the National Assembly shows more and more signs of division. The latest: the temptation of some MPs to join the Modem group, which does nothing to dissuade them.

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Are the majority dividing a little more? In the National Assembly, LREM deputies are tempted to join the group of their ally, François Bayrou's Modem. An initiative not necessarily friendly and which makes your teeth cringe. Because it is indeed a migration of a few seats in the hemicycle of the National Assembly which tempts several deputies En Marche, scalded in particular by the announced departure of their disputed boss, Gilles Le Gendre. They would be a dozen to consider joining the ranks of the Modem.

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Until then, tacit agreement required, the centrists were not allowed to welcome walkers. But with the creation of two dissident groups, the lines are said to be on the Modem side: "if we could have opened the door, we would have avoided the creation of a ninth and tenth groups" assures a deputy.

"We will have to give State Secretariats to the Modem"

Except that walkers side, this possible opening does not pass, especially as several deputies say they were approached. "They came to do their shopping", gets annoyed by a heavyweight from the LREM group.

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Welcoming MPs En Marche au Modem: the idea in the pipes for a long time. But this acceleration in recent days is said to be explained by the bad mood of the centrists after the reshuffle, where they only kept their three positions ... "Now, we will have to give them secretariats of State, otherwise it risks going crazy, "says a walker.