It’s his moment. After three years of war in Ukraine and the geopolitical tilting caused by the rapprochement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Sébastien Lecornu comes out of the shadows. A test for the discreet Minister of the Armed Forces, who “Don’t like light”according to those around him. It was however, Thursday evening March 13, in “prime time” in “” The event »»on France 2, rapid debit and control of files, to explain that the Russian threat is ” sustainable “. “We are not at war, but more completely at peace”alerted the former mayor of Vernon (Eure), 38, who has survived all changes in government since 2017.
In the afternoon, Sébastien Lecornu received parliamentary officials, alongside the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, for an information meeting with the army staff and the intelligence services on the most sensitive aspects of the Ukrainian file. Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella for the National Rally, Mathilde Panot and Manon Aubry for Insoumise France, the Socialists Boris Vallaud and Patrick Kanner, Sarah Knafo (Reconquer) or Raphaël Glucksmann (public square) in particular, were around the table. A meeting of three and a half hours, behind closed doors and without a cell phone. “We were silent with François Bayrou, and we let the technicians explain”described the Minister of the Armed Forces on France 2, letting nothing showcase ties that preceded this singular session.
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