Sébastien Lecornu | Macron’s lieutenant

Sébastien Lecornu, as the prime minister of France on September 9 in Paris at the ceremony as the Prime Minister of France as a speech, “We will succeed … Because nothing is impossible,” he said. 24 hours after the fall of the François Bayrou’s government, President Emmanuel Macron was appointed as Premier. Mr. Lecornu, 39, is now the fifth prime minister of the country under two years.

Sébastien Lecornu, who was born on June 11, 1986 in Eaubonne, Val-D’oise, was the son of an aviation factory technician and medical secretary. His modest history based on the Küçük Vernon town in Normandy shaped his political appearance. “Unfortunately, I got old,” he once joke, a statement that implies both the back hairstyle and the weight of early responsibilities. Politics says it is always available. “I never imagined that I kept the government’s office so early, Mr Mr. Lecornu said.

Mr. Lecornu remembers the effect of an inspiration in the political journey of his grandfather, a decorated member of his anti -Nazi resistance in Calvados during World War II.

According to late young people, Mr. Lecornu had already entered politics. At the age of 19, he became a parliamentary attaché; A 22 -year -old adviser to Bruno Le Maire, then a rising figure on the French right. He was elected Mayor of Vernon at the age of 28. Until 2020, he took a Senate seat for Normandy. In addition to this stable rise, Mr. Lecornu maintained a dual identity: a fascinated French history, a fascinated French history, a substitute colonel in the National Jendarmeriie (military police) and then a passion to define the role of France as a defense minister.

Strategic autonomy

Attention and discretionary authority are two keys to the long life in the government. Lecornu, a member of President Macron’s centralist Renaissance Party, has been a loyal ally since the beginning of the first period of the President. Since 2017, it has served in every cabinet. He started as an ecology secretary, moved to overseas jobs and a defense portfolio was given in 2022. As Defense Minister, Mr. Lecornu defended Mr. Macron’s vision of European strategic autonomy. Since Russia launched the occupation of Ukraine in 2022, Mr. Lecornu has become the face of France’s military accumulation. In 2023, a new military planning law, which foresees defense expenditures from 2024 to 2030, was a shepherd in the parliamentary law. He developed bonds along the political spectrum and gained fame as the “King of Political Flirts .. Gérald Darmanin, one of France’s Minister of Interior and one of the closest friends of Mr. Lecornu, said, “He has a great capacity for dialogue.” “Talking to everyone-from the left France to RN, Franço, François Cormier-Boulgion, an X-ray,” he said. Le Monde.

However, Mr. Lecornu’s career did not have controversy. As the overseas minister, he controlled the 2021 referendum in the new Caledonia, which was boycotted by independent groups, and undermined the legitimacy of the votes. In addition, the EURE zone of the home area in both 2022 Presidency and 2024 legislative elections to prevent the swinging towards Marine Le Pen’s national rally.

Green Party leader Marine Tondelier once condemned him as “homophobic, and opposed the same gender marriage and the right to adopt. Mr. Lecornu later softened his posture and admitted that he had “a long way özellikle, especially in medical supported reproduction.

Mr Lecornu studied at a special Catholic Lycée Saint-Adjutor in Vernon before he began a degree of law in Paris. He enrolled in a graduate program in public law, but did not complete it. Today, he lives with his dog Tiga, known to have wandered in the corridors of the Ministry of Armed Forces.

Mr. Lecornu was sometimes accused of playing the court, his loyalty was awarded. He became a part of the “élysée Men’s Club, which is the strict inner environment of the president, and usually accompanied Mr. Macron abroad. During the “Yellow Vest” crisis in 2018–19, he became a key architect of the “Great National Discussion ılan that convinced the President directly to interact with the mayors and citizens, which is a move that alleviates tensions.

Now, as the Prime Minister, Mr. Lecornu is faced with the dual difficulty of filling the gap, providing sufficient support to exceed an important budget to be signed until December 31, in a divided parliament, where there is no majority of any party.

Published – 14 September 2025 02:44