Jean Rottner, former LR president of the Grand Est, joins the private sector and attracts criticism from regional elected officials


The former regional president had invoked a family reason to explain his resignation from the Grand Est Regional Council. He joined the consulting firm and real estate developer Réalités.

Jean Rottner, resigning president of the Grand Est region, will join the consulting firm and real estate developer Réalités, the company announced in a press release on Friday, arousing numerous criticisms from regional elected officials. “The Réalités group announces the opening in the summer of 2023 of its Grand Est Regional Department. It will be headed by Jean Rottner who, after leaving public life, joined the entrepreneurial adventure“, indicates the company on its website.

On December 20, Jean Rottner (LR), president of the Grand Est region since 2017, announced to everyone’s surprise that he was leaving public life and retiring from “all of his/her mandates” due “family imperatives“. His resignation from the Regional Council is effective since Friday.

I can understand that someone leaves politics for a family imperative, and in this case you have to earn a living“, reacted Eliane Romani, leader of the environmental group at the regional council. “But this announcement comes a little fast, which suggests that it was already concluded for some time. He uses the network he acquired in his public functions to go and serve a private organization which has relations with the communities, it is a definition of revolving door.» «Taking such a position is not done without the agreement of the HATVP(High Authority for Transparency in Public Life), Rottner told AFP. “She will take care of publishing her own opinion.»

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John Rottner”mentioned family reasons that I do not know so it is difficult to pass judgmentcommented Laurent Jacobelli, elected member of the Rassemblement National group. “But changing presidents during their mandate is becoming a habit in the regional council, it’s a problem. People vote but are unsure of the president and the policy they will have. If he wanted to dissuade voters from voting, he would not do otherwise“.

Taking on the regional management of an agency that does territorial engineering as close as possible to communities, even though we are in the midst of revising the Regional Development Plan and knowing the changes that will be made, that raises questions“, confided Christophe Choserot (Renaissance), member of the centrist group.

Jean Rottner, 55, a former emergency doctor, succeeded Philippe Richert, who resigned in 2017. He was then elected in June 2021. The election of his successor will take place on January 13, and should induct Franck Leroy (Horizons), mayor of Epernay (Marne) and member of the majority group.



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