Sébastien Lecornu: one year at Matignon between skill and uncertain results

He almost only lasted a day, he has already lasted a year. Assuming himself, upon his appointment, as the "weakest prime minister in the entire history of the Fifth Republic", Sébastien Lecornu could remain at Matignon until the end of Emmanuel Macron's presidency. For what assessment, with regard to France's recovery objective (its economy, its schools, its security, etc.)? There is reason to wonder. But we can only recognize the skill of someone we didn’t see coming and who knew how to hold on.

This skill consisted of making his weakness, if not a strength, at least an alibi. Michel Barnier had fallen on his budget and François Bayrou on his debt reduction plan. Sébastien Lecornu, for his part, sought neither to pass by force, nor to promise “blood and tears”, nor to present large-scale or long-term reforms. He presented himself as someone who cannot do much and who does so with the context imposed on him. In doing so, he…