The news fell this Sunday at the end of the day on the phones of LREM deputies, by an SMS from Gilles Le Gendre. "The Prime Minister will join us during the dinner, now a ritual, offered by our Group this evening during the suspension," wrote the president of the majority group to his troops, directing them to come "in large numbers".
On the menu for discussions during this meal, which will take place at the meeting of the Assembly between the afternoon and evening sessions, with the deputies present in the hemicycle, the laborious examination of the pension reform at the Assembly. For the head of government, according to a close friend, "it is to listen to how the deputies present feel things".
It is also a way of re-motivating troops drained by a week of parliamentary guerrilla warfare. And worried, for some, about the prospect of 49.3 which seems to be taking shape more and more. The presence of the Prime Minister is, finally, a response to those who, within the group were annoyed to see him this weekend campaigning in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), where he is a candidate for the municipal elections, regretting that "We no longer see the Prime Minister".