Sébastien Lecornu

Sébastien Lecornu (born 11 June 1986) is a French politician serving as Minister of the Overseas since 2020. A member of La République En Marche! (REM) since he left The Republicans (LR) in 2017, he was President of the Departmental Council of Eure from 2015 to 2017, Secretary of State to the Minister of the Ecological and Inclusive Transition from 2017 to 2018 and Minister of Local Authorities from 2018 until 2020.

Sébastien Lecornu
Minister of the Overseas
Assumed office
6 July 2020
Prime MinisterJean Castex
Preceded byAnnick Girardin
Minister of Local Authorities
In office
16 October 2018 – 6 July 2020
Prime MinisterÉdouard Philippe
Preceded byJean-Michel Baylet (2017)
Succeeded byJacqueline Gourault
Secretary of State to the Minister of the Ecological and Inclusive Transition
In office
21 June 2017 – 16 October 2018
Prime MinisterÉdouard Philippe
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byEmmanuelle Wargon
President of the Departmental Council of Eure
In office
2 April 2015 – 10 July 2017
Preceded byJean-Louis Destans
Succeeded byPascal Lehongre
Mayor of Vernon
In office
5 April 2014 – 4 December 2015
Preceded byPhilippe Nguyen Thanh
Succeeded byFrançois Ouzilleau
Personal details
Born (1986-06-11) 11 June 1986
Eaubonne, France
NationalityFrench
Political partyLa République En Marche! (2017–present)
Other political
affiliations		Union for a Popular Movement (2002–2015)
The Republicans (2015–2017)
Alma materPanthéon-Assas University

Early life and education

A native of Eaubonne, Val-d'Oise, he joined the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in 2002 and studied at Panthéon-Assas University.

In 2005, he became a parliamentary assistant to Franck Gilard, the member of the National Assembly for Eure's 5th constituency; Lecornu was, at the time, the youngest parliamentary assistant in the National Assembly.[1] In 2008, he became an advisor to Secretary of State for European Affairs Bruno Le Maire; at age 22 Lecornu was the youngest advisor to an official in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon.

He is a member of the National Gendarmerie operational reserve with the rank of lieutenant. He was appointed colonel as reserve specialist in the fall of 2017.

Political career

Local elected

In the 2014 municipal election, Sébastien Lecornu was elected Mayor of Vernon. The combination of two executive mandates being incompatible, he abandoned the town hall of Vernon on December 4, 2015.

Following the 2015 departmental elections in which he was elected councillor for the canton of Vernon alongside Catherine Delalande, he became President of the Departmental Council of Eure.

He highlights his refusal to raise taxes and rigorous management of public money. Mediapart points out that the hunt for RSA fraudsters has been - with great communication support - the flagship policy pursued by the department since the arrival of Sébastien Lecornu. It is also closing two priority education colleges, which it justifies by their too low occupancy rate.[2]

Secretary of State
Sébastien Lecornu in 2017

In 2017, he was appointed to be a Secretary of State to the Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition by President Emmanuel Macron.

He was then suspended from his duties within The Republicans by the party and disciplinary exclusion proceedings were brought against him. He was excluded from The Republicans on October 31, 2017, with Gérald Darmanin, also a member of the government, and the member of the National Assembly, Franck Riester and Thierry Solère.[3] He then joined La République En Marche!.

Nicolas Hulot delegates issues related to energy in general to him. In particular, he was entrusted with several sensitive files such as the closure of the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant, the opening of the Flamanville's EPR, or the Cigeo nuclear waste landfill project in Bure.[4]

Minister of Local Authorities

In 16 October 2018, Sébastien Lecornu was appointed Minister of Local Authorities to the Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities, Jacqueline Gourault.[5]

On January 14, 2019, he was appointed with Emmanuelle Wargon to lead the "great national debate", organized in order to get out of the crisis caused by the Yellow vests movement.[6]

Minister of the Overseas

On 6 July 2020, he was appointed Minister of the Overseas in the Castex Government.

References
  1. Alexandre Lemarié (2 April 2015). "Sébastien Lecornu becomes the youngest of the departmental presidents" (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  2. Lucie Delaporte (15 November 2016). "In the Eure, the other face of Bruno Le Maire" (in French). Mediapart. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  3. LCI Editing (31 October 2017). "Five pro-Macron members, including Edouard Philippe, excluded by Les Républicains" (in French). LCI. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  4. Marcelo Wesfreid (2 February 2018). "Sébastien Lecornu, the "Mr. Government nuclear" (in French). Le Figaro. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  5. Laurent Philippot (16 October 2018). "Reshuffle: Sébastien Lecornu promoted to Minister of Local Authorities" (in French). France Bleu. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  6. "What you need to know about the national debate" (in French). Le Monde. 14 January 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
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