A new hat for Christoph Castaner. The former interior minister was named chairman of the board of directors of the French concession company for the road tunnel under Mont-Blanc on Friday, the Official Journal website said. The 56-year-old early Macronist replaces Thierry Repentin, 59, the mayor of Chambéry and former Socialist minister delegated for vocational training and then European affairs under Francois Hollande, 59, who has been in office since 2017.
Autoroutes et Tunnel du Mont-Blanc (ATMB) is a company 91.3% owned by the state and local authorities, the holder of a concession agreement with the French State, entrusting it with the maintenance and management of the Autoroute blanche (A40). Route blanche (RN205). Since 2002, ATMB and its Italian partner SITMB (Mont Blanc Tunnel Italian Company) have been operating and maintaining the Mont Blanc Tunnel within the Franco-Italian group GEIE-TMB.
By presidential decree of November 17, 2022, this appointment follows the appointment of Christophe Castaner at the Grand Port of Marseille (GPMM), College of Qualified Persons of the Supervisory Board of the Port of the City, in the same city. like former Orange CEO Stéphane Richard or Laurence Bory Bansel, who heads Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR). Christophe Castaner, close to President Macron, was Minister of the Interior (2018-2020) in the Castex government and head of the presidential majority parliamentary group in September 2020, before being badly beaten in his stronghold in the 2022 legislative elections. in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Source: Le Figaro
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