Sébastien Lecornu

French politician, currently the Prime Minister of France, appointed in September 2025 by President Macron and reappointed by Macron in October 2025 after a brief resignation. He succeeded François Bayrou.

Positioned on the right of the ideological political spectrum, Lecornu holds Gaullist, Séguinist, and socially conservative beliefs.

Since leaving The Republicans (LR) in 2017, Lecornu has been a member of Renaissance (RE, formerly La République en marche). Lecornu was President of the Departmental Council of Eure from 2015 to 2017. In government, he served as Secretary of State to the Minister of the Ecological and Inclusive Transition (2017–2018), Minister for Local Authorities (2018–2020), Minister of the Overseas (2020–2022) and Minister of the Armed Forces (2022–2025).

On 9 September 2025, he was appointed as Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron after the Bayrou government was brought down by a vote of no confidence. He resigned on 6 October 2025, only a day after forming his government. Four days later, he was reappointed by President Macron, on 10 October 2025.

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

He tried monastic life at the Abbey of Saint-Wandrille in Fontenelle.