Since leaving Matignon on May 16, Jean Castex has been rather discreet.
Appointed head of the French transport infrastructure financing agency (AFITF), he also became president of the Action Against Exclusion Foundation.
The opportunity for him to participate, Tuesday, in the visit of a CFA in Paris alongside the ministers delegate Carole Grandjean (Vocational education and training) and Geneviève Darrieussecq (Disabled people).
"A way for me to do the after-sales service of the decisions made when I was Prime Minister"
, he observes, citing the development of learning and the support of this institution at the forefront in the reception of People with Disabilities.
“We do not redo! I like to talk with people, go to them and we learn a lot of things, it's always very useful”
, slips the former Prime Minister while strolling in the kitchens of the establishment where students prepare apricot pies .
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No question of seeing a return to the public debate:
“I am in withdrawal.
Politics is very useful to the country, but you can also be very useful without doing national politics
,” he says, although he sets himself the goal of making one trip a week.
Discreetly, he has already recently visited Lorient and Strasbourg.
At the head of the country
“I did what I believed and what I could to the maximum.
Now I'm doing something else”
, he insists,
“don't count on me to talk about pensions or Madame Borne”
who took over from Matignon.
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“Taking a step aside does not mean that I am leaving public service and the general interest. I try to make myself useful otherwise”
, develops Jean Castex who was surprised by the many comments from Internet users after the publication on social networks of a photo of him in the Paris metro.
“I've been taking the metro four or five times a day for four months.
Suddenly there is a photo of me that arouses the astonishment of a small part of the population.
There is nothing extraordinary and I'm not sure it deserves so many comments,”
he replies.
He is
"of course"
touched by the attention he arouses among the French people he meets while ensuring that he is not looking for her.
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Taking public transport without a bodyguard
"gives him the opportunity to meet (his) fellow citizens on a daily basis who do not hesitate to come and talk to him, it's normal"
, welcomes Jean Castex.
"I become the mayor that I was, it's more direct"
, notes the one who nevertheless decided not to take over the scarf of aedile of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales).
Asked whether he is sometimes tempted by a return to the political forefront, Jean Castex swears:
“not for the moment”
.
Is this
"step aside"
definitive?
"Isn't it only in cemeteries that things are final?"
, he loose with a smile, then specifying that he will remain outside the political field
"as long as necessary"
.
The former prime minister stresses that he occupied Matignon for an
“exceptional and historic”
moment in the midst of a health crisis.
"We wonder 'did I do well?'"
after
"decisions that may not please"
.
But the 57-year-old
'trusts people'
to understand what he has done.
All the more reason, he believes, to let time do its work and step back.
Especially since the current political climate is conducive to the divisions it abhors.
“Politics is first of all the art of making people live together, the natural temptation is so much to argue, to fuck each other in the face, to get torn… Putting oil on the fire is a very easy exercise because the fire is just waiting to start.
It is the opposite of what makes our humanity in democracies: knowing how to live together, making our differences an asset
, ”pleads the Occitan.
