Overview

• The 69-year-old veteran lawmaker was appointed on October 5 to replace François Rebsamen, who had announced his departure a day earlier.
• His portfolio combines territorial planning, decentralization and housing, aligning with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s pledge for a major decentralization push.
• Woerth was acquitted ten days earlier in the 2007 Libyan financing case, but the national financial prosecutor has filed an appeal that could lead to a new trial.
• A former Budget and Labor minister under Nicolas Sarkozy, he later chaired the National Assembly’s finance committee and is regarded as a finance expert.
• Once a leading figure in Les Républicains, he broke with the party in 2022 to support Emmanuel Macron and has since sat with the presidential majority.