discover the privileges he gave up when he left Matignon

On May 16, 2022, Jean Castex was released from his duties. After two years alongside Emmanuel Macron, it is understandable that the former Prime Minister was overcome with a slight feeling of nostalgia. “I would tell the next person that they are lucky to get here. It is a house that turns, with a remarkable and caring staff. It’s like a family”he confided at the Parisian. By giving way to Elisabeth Borne, Jean Castex naturally said goodbye to certain advantages. In particular, this was through free access to SNCF trains in first class, a bodyguarda company car, not to mention two company accommodations and the keys to a second home which is none other than the Château de Souzy-la-Briche, in Essonne.

As revealed The JDD on July 3, 2022, Emmanuel Macron’s former right-hand man no longer has “no driver, no company car, no bodyguard and most often travels by bus and metro in the capital”. The proof with this photo of the politician in the subway which made the rounds of the Web at the beginning of September 2022. But, for all that, Would Jean Castex live perfectly the fact of having become an “ordinary” man again?

Jean Castex satisfied to live like an anonymous again?

According to the comments made by the journalist of LCI, Renaud Pila, Tuesday September 20, 2022, Jean Castex would not care at all to be preview in the metro : “His photo in the subway neither annoyed nor amused him. He takes the metro very very often, he lives like that!” What could be more practical for strolling around Paris, after all? It must be said that the politician must have felt a certain relief when he passed, definitively or not, the door of 57 rue de Varenne.

And for good reason, his stay at Matignon but above all his duties made him pass two long years of stress. “I had a stomach ache for two years! I was appointed to Matignon, to my great surprise, in a context of health crisis whose outcome was unknown, with one watchword: that it does not mortgage the future.he had indicated in the columns of theSunday newspaperin May 2022.