Sébastien Lecornu


Sébastien Lecornu is a French politician serving as Minister of Local Authorities since 2018.

Early life and education

A native of Eaubonne, Val-d'Oise, he joined the Union for a Popular Movement 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. 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.

Secretary of State

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. 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.

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.
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.