PORTRAIT – Appointed CEO of the Régie on Wednesday, the former Prime Minister is a great connoisseur of the transport sector.
Édouard Philippe who is mounting his political movement in view of the 2027 presidential election; Bernard Cazeneuve left to work in a business law firm… Each former tenant of Matignon invents his life according to his own way. Nevertheless, Jean Castex surprised by positioning himself to take the lead of the RATP. And the astonishment has not subsided, when he will be appointed CEO of the Régie this Wednesday in the Council of Ministers. The general feeling? It would not be at the level of a former prime minister to manage the metros, RER and other buses in Paris. He had indeed taken the presidency of the AFITF (Agency for financing transport infrastructures in France) last summer. But in everyone’s mind, it was a non-executive, part-time waiting job. The RATP requires another investment.
“Castex is a great servant of the state and has a sense of dutysays Jacques Gounon, president of Getlink (ex-Eurotunnel). Macron asks him to take over the RATP so that the metro…
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