DECRYPTION – The government and elected officials in the Ile-de-France are torn over the end of the RATP monopoly.
It was the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who lit the fuse. In a letter sent shortly before Christmas to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, she “wishes that the opening to bus network competition(in Paris and in the first crown, editor’s note) be reconsidered or, at the very least, postponed well beyond 1is January 2025.» In early January, she drove the point home in a forum co-signed with 250 other left-wing elected officials from the Ile-de-France region. “We ask you to suspend the privatization process for all transport in Île-de-France”we read in this text published in The world.
Today, his first deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, goes further. “We are in favor of the cancellation of the opening to competition in buses in Paris and in the first crown”he says to Figaro. As for the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, he also opens the door to an adjustment of the calendar on this file: “If we are not ready to do this operation on the 1is January…
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