“Cheer up Jean Castex, it’s Friday!” It was with this amusing caption that a Twitter user named Le R posted on Twitter at the end of the week a photograph of the former prime minister sitting on a Paris metro train, backpack between his legs.
The snapshot, shared more than 2,000 times and with more than 16,500 likes, made his photographer, who went through the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the National Assembly, say that he had “broken the internet.”
Many users have retweeted the photograph of Jean Castex with their eyes in the void, such as the journalists Jérôme Godefroy and Michel Mompontet. The first praised “the behavior of an exemplary citizen” of the ex-tenant of Matignon, while the second was surprised that it seemed “rare” to us that he had found “a life like everyone else.”
Castex bets on the bus and the metro
In a letter published in its July 3 edition, the Sunday newspaper (JDD) indicated that Jean Castex had settled in Paris and had renounced the privileges granted to former Prime Ministers. He does not have a driver, company car or bodyguard and most of the time he travels by bus and subway in the capital, according to the weekly.
Since leaving the Government, Jean Castex has been appointed head of the Board of Directors of the Agency for the Financing of Transport Infrastructure in France (AFITF), recalls the JDD. He is also the voluntary president of the Fondation Agir contre l’exclusion (FACE), ad hoc accompanies the general management of the Idverde company and has returned to the Court of Auditors.
Source: BFM TV
