Sébastien Lecornu

Sebéstien Lecornu 2017

Sébastien Lecornu (born June 11, 1986 in Eaubonne , France ) is a French politician ( La République en Marche ) and Minister for Local Authorities at the Minister for Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities . He was then promoted to Minister for Overseas Territories in the Castex cabinet .

Career

Lecornu holds a master's degree in public law from the Panthéon-Assas University in Paris . In 2008 he became an advisor to the State Secretary for European Affairs, Bruno Le Maire . He continued as an advisor from 2009 to 2012 after his appointment as Minister of Agriculture. From 2013 to 2014 Lecornu was the national secretary of the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire ("Union for a Popular Movement") party, later renamed Les Républicains ("The Republicans"). Lecornu was mayor of Vernon from 2014 to 2015 . Since 2015 he has been president of the Départemental of Eure . In 2017 he was appointed State Secretary to the Minister for the Ecological and Solidarity Transition in the French cabinet . As a result, he was expelled from the Republican Party in October 2017, along with other members of his party’s government, including Prime Minister Édouard Philippe . He then joined the party La République en Marche . On October 16, 2018, at the suggestion of Philippe, Lecornu was appointed Minister for Local Authorities to the Minister for Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities ( Jacqueline Gourault ) by the French President Emmanuel Macron .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae Lecornus on the website of the French embassy in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000066985911/frankreichs-konservative-schlossen-premierminister-aus-partei-aus
2. ↑ https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/normandie/eure/sebastien-lecornu-rejoint-republique-marche-1373153.html
3. ↑ https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2018/10/16/communique-de-presse-remaniement-et-composition-du-nouveau-gouvernement