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Stéphane Sejourné lived in a civil union with Gabriel Attal,[5] a French politician serving as the Prime Minister of France since January 2024.
In 2018, Attal was outed on Twitter by his former École alsacienne classmate Juan Branco.[6][7]
When Macron became president in the 2017 elections, Séjourné came along as a political adviser, working alongside Alexis Kohler and Ismaël Emelien.[2] He then took a six-month-long leave of absence to lead LREM’s campaign for the 2019 European elections.[4]
In addition to his committee assignments, Séjourné is part of the Parliament's delegations for relations with Mercosur and the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital,[9] the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights,[10] the MEPs Against Cancer group[11] and the European Internet Forum.[12]
Following the resignation of Dacian Cioloş in 2021, Séjourné announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament.[13]
In May 2022, Séjourné – together with Patrick Mignola for the Democratic Movement (MoDem) and Gilles Boyer for Horizons – negotiated the agreement leading to the creation of Ensemble, a coalition of the parties forming the presidential majority, including on the financial distribution between them.[14]
At the September 2022 convention of Renaissance, Séjourné was the only candidate in the running to succeed the party’s chair Stanislas Guerini and was elected as new leader.[15]
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2024–present
On 11 January 2024, Séjourné was appointed minister of Europe and foreign affairs in Gabriel Attal's government.[16] His first official trip abroad was to Germany for a meeting with his counterpart Annalena Baerbock.[17]
Séjourné criticized South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel, saying "To accuse the Jewish state of genocide is to cross a moral threshold."[18]
In 2024, Séjourné committed not to work with the far-right in the next European Parliament and refused to align with the nationalist European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group.[21]