The Council of Ministers ratified, Wednesday, November 23, the appointment of Jean Castex at the head of the RATP and that of Luc Rémont at the controls of EDF.
The former Prime Minister succeeds Catherine Guillouard, who resigned in early September for personal reasons. He will have the heavy task of restoring a service that has been largely degraded since this summer due to a conflicting social climate and operating difficulties due to a shortage of staff, all with the horizon of the 2024 Olympic Games.
During his hearing in Parliament on November 8 and 9, he promised to “meet user expectations”. He gave himself three weeks to establish a “shared diagnosis” et “find additional tools” to restore the situation, with a “issue of quality of life at work”. In particular, it intends to increase the human presence in contact with travelers and “to humanize to the maximum [le] service ».
The new CEO of EDF, which the State is preparing to renationalise 100%, was appointed by the Elysée on September 29, and Parliament validated his appointment on October 26. A 53-year-old polytechnic engineer, he combines experience in ministerial cabinets and a stint at the investment bank Bank of America Merrill Lynch and then at Schneider Electric. He succeeds Jean-Bernard Lévy, 67, who had been at the helm of EDF since 2014, whose early departure was announced this summer, at the same time as the next renationalization of the group. He will go on his first day in this position to the site of the Flamanville nuclear power plant (Manche), where a third reactor is under construction.
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