Guillaume Pepy should not woo third mandate. The president of the SNCF, in office since 2008, was confirmed on Wednesday during a board of directors. His mandate ends at the end of 2019, which leaves a reasonable time for the government to find a successor at the head of the railway company.

This statement comes to confirm the comments that he had already in march 2018 at the micro Europe 1 : "Like my predecessors, Louis Gallois and Jacques Fournier who have done two terms, I think that I will not seek no third term," he explained.

Guillaume Pepy has published an article in Echoes on Wednesday, in which he defends his action and believes that "the company is ready for the future". He explains that the SNCF "is in full development with more traffic, more investment and more skills. She also won - it is a little known - at the international, where it already generates 33 % of its activity."

during his ten years as president, Guillaume Pepy has significantly reformed the operation of the SNCF. And although often criticized by 2018, due to numerous failures in railway stations and on the network, the government has maintained its confidence.

It is under his presidency that the project of reform of the SNCF, which led to a strike "beaded" in the spring of 2018, has been prepared and voted. In this topic, Guillaume Pepy claims to have "always hoped that the SNCF has all the weapons to win in the competition announcement. I am happy that the reform train has occurred before the opening of the market of travellers."

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