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Castex, a night train for Paca

2021-05-20T12:21:58.461Z


INFO LE PARISIEN. This Thursday evening, the Prime Minister will board the Paris-Nice night train. To inaugurate the reopening of the line


Ah, fall asleep to the steady sound of wheels rubbing against the rail, and wake up at your destination.

The Prime Minister will not shy away from this little pleasure, which will leave Paris this Thursday evening and arrive in Nice on Friday morning.

It's the big comeback of night trains and Jean Castex inaugurates the reopening of the famous Paris-Nice line.

The opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. To say to the “territories” (it is, as a reminder, the favorite word of Jean Castex) that he is and remains their friend. The night train, a gentle and ecological mode of transport which opens up certain regions… So first of all, a declaration of love for rail from this Prime Minister who is a fan of the train (he wrote a book on the Perpignan railway line -Villefranche (Editions Talaia) and he has always subscribed to

La vie du rail

). But there is a very political second. This is the destination. Nice! In this Paca region where Jean Castex set fire to it a little less than three weeks ago by announcing an electoral agreement between Renaud Muselier and LREM. Nice, whose mayor, Christian Estrosi, has just left Les Républicains, precisely because he could not bear the reaction of his former party to the announcement of this agreement. It remains to be seen whether Estrosi and Muselier, objects of the battering of a whole party of LR (some like François-Xavier Bellamy are calling for a white vote in June!) Will be waiting for Castex at the station with the croissants.

The Prime Minister, wanting to don his costume of majority leader, got personally involved in what he called "an example of political recomposition" but which risks turning into a fiasco: in Paca, the polls give the RN winner. If, indeed, the Muselier-LREM list is beaten by that of Mariani, Castex and Macron will both be accused of being responsible. There is a month left to avoid the "terminus, everyone gets off" ...

Source: leparis

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