Former Prime Minister Jean Castex, appointed this summer as president of the board of directors of the Agency for the financing of transport infrastructure in France (Afit France), should take the helm of the RATP, according to what we learned this Tuesday from concordant sources, confirming information of the “site of Mobilettre”.
He will succeed Catherine Guillouard, who resigned for personal reasons. she herself had achieved Elizabeth Borne in this position in 2017 and was re-elected in July 2019 for a period of five years.
The Paris transport authority has lost its director general, Catherine Guillouard, who resigned after five years in office, and its number two, Philippe Martin, who retired on September 30.
Interest conflict?
According to “Mobiletter”, Jean Castex, who initially targeted the SNCF currently directed by Jean-Pierre Farandou, would have met “this weekend” with President Emmanuel Macron, who would have given him the green light.
A union source sees with bad eyes this arrival of “someone who knows nothing about transport” despite a declared interest and “considers that there is no difference between a bus driver from Paris and one from Clermont-Ferrand”.
57 years old, the former head of government from July 3, 2020 to May 16, 2022 is a graduate of the ENA. Originally from Gers, he was also mayor of Prades (Pyrenees-Orientales).
The RATP, which manages 330 lines in Ile-de-France and transports more than three million passengers a day through its bus network, is currently going through all the problems in the world to maintain a complete service, in a context of absenteeism, contracting difficulties or opening up to competition.
Source: BFM TV
