Sébastien Lecornu, from former Macronist favorite of the RN to Prime Minister quickly threatened by Marine Le Pen

December 13, 2024. Marine Le Pen strolls between the chalets of the Christmas market in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais). With a wry smile, the leader of the far right wants to believe that evening that her influence played a role, a few hours earlier, in the nomination of François Bayrou as head of government: "I think that Emmanuel Macron always kept in mind that those who could avoid censure [of the future prime minister] were the elected members of the National Rally [RN] ." Once the sentence had been handed down, she recalled her preferences for Matignon: " [François] Bayrou or [Sébastien] Lecornu: both correspond to the demands of the RN," anxious at the time to obtain a more accessible interlocutor than Michel Barnier.

Nine months later, the Le Pen party, along with the left, caused the fall of the former on Monday, September 8, followed by the latter the very next day . Cornered by parliamentary instability and repeated government crises, Emmanuel Macron chose to save his second term the most compatible member of the National Rally. The one, in any case, who had least aroused his hostility in recent years. This indulgence, still mentioned that very morning by a leader of the movement, was swept away as soon as the Elysée press release was published.

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