This relative of Edouard Philippe, who came from the right, was the working ankle of the “great debate”. As Minister of Overseas, he was confronted with the riots in Guadeloupe and the rejection, by the elected officials of Mayotte, of his bill for the archipelago.
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He is a man of confidence of Emmanuel Macron who goes from the Ministry of Overseas to that of the armies. Sébastien Lecornu, 35, was appointed to this post, Friday, May 20, by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and by the new Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
This ex-Republicans, close to Edouard Philippe, is the former mayor of Vernon and president of the Eure Departmental Council. After having rallied Emmanuel Macron between the two towers of the 2017 presidential election, he entered the government as Secretary of State with Nicolas Hulot, then Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition. He initiates the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant (Haut-Rhin) and soothes the dispute concerning the Radioactive Waste Site of Bure (Meuse).
noticed by the Head of State, he won his stripes, once it became Minister of Territorial Collectivities in 2018, by setting in motion the great debate desired by Emmanuel Macron in response to the crisis of “yellow vests”.
In July 2020, Sébastien Lecornu became Minister of Overseas in the government of Jean Castex. His first political storm occurred in November 2021, when he was slow to go to Guadeloupe, destabilized by the very strong challenge of the vaccination obligation of caregivers and firefighters against the COVVI-19. It displays firmness, refusing any local development of the law and denouncing the occupation of the regional council by demonstrators. Furthermore, a controversy over the non-compliance with barriers then in force, both in a “rum evening” at the ministry and during an aperitif in New Caledonia, in full confinement, temporarily weakens it.
Mayotte Camouflet
New difficulty, in January 2022, when the elected officials of Mayotte unanimously reject his bill for the archipelago, by which he intended to mark his ministry. This text focuses on the fight against illegal immigration and insecurity, the convergence of social rights, the accelerated development of the territory, the youth and the insertion, to which is added an organic component which would make Mayotte a department-region , in the same way as Guyana or Martinique.
The ministry of Lecornu is also marked by the third referendum on the independence of New Caledonia, and the third “no”, which leads to the maintenance of the status quo of the Noumea agreements and the entry into A eighteen-month transition period devoted to the development of a new project.
In April 2021, Sébastien Lecornu was heard by the anti -corruption police regarding his activities at the head of the Eure department, the subject of an investigation by the national financial prosecutor’s office for “illegal taking of interests”. He had touched 7,874 euros gross of “presence tokens” as administrator of the Paris-Normandie motorway company, while he presided over the department. With the agency France-Presse, his cabinet had argued with a “historical practice”, the participation of a president of the department in such a council allowing to “make the voice of the territories” heard.