Overview

• Élysée officials announced the nominations on September 26 and transmitted them to National Assembly president Yaël Braun-Pivet and Senate president Gérard Larcher for review.
• Under the constitutional procedure, the appointments cannot take effect if at least three-fifths of votes cast in the parliamentary commissions oppose them.
• Jean Castex, 60, currently heads the RATP and would succeed Jean-Pierre Farandou, who has led SNCF since 2019 and extended an interim into the autumn despite the age limit.
• Castex is credited with stabilising the RATP through a workplace quality agreement with unions and significant pay increases after a period of service disruptions.
• Marie-Ange Debon leads Keolis, where revenue rose 9.6% to €7.7 billion, and she is proposed to chair La Poste’s board.