Overview
- Parliamentary commissions endorsed his nomination on January 28, with about 74% support among voting senators and 65% among deputies, equating to roughly 83% of expressed votes.
- Piechaczyk named passenger and staff security as his first priority, citing multiple daily assaults on RER and metro networks and pledging a stronger response.
- He called for tighter coordination between RATP’s GPSR, police and private security and signaled openness to AI tools for detecting attacks under strict democratic oversight.
- He vowed to manage the sensitive workforce shifts tied to market opening, noting four staff transfers are scheduled between March 1 and November 1, 2026.
- He outlined technical goals including a long-term resilience plan for climate risks, improved ventilation and air filtration, brake upgrades to cut particulates, and targeted automation projects such as on Line 13.