Overview

• Announcing his decision on Saturday, the outgoing territorial planning and decentralization minister said he informed Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu that he will not join the incoming cabinet.
• He pledged a “demanding and lucid” form of backing conditioned on consistency with his social‑democratic, ecological, pro‑European and progressive convictions.
• He highlighted two reforms he initiated on the status of elected officials and the simplification of local authority management, urging that they be carried forward.
• He pressed for the constitutional bill on Corsican autonomy, approved in the Council of Ministers on July 31, to be placed on Parliament’s agenda after municipal elections as promised by the president.
• He remains president of Dijon Métropole and leader of La Fédération progressiste, having entered the government in December after giving up the Dijon mayoralty.