Jean-Baptiste Djebbari should be appointed administrator of Hopium, a sort of French Tesla of Hydrogen, during the General Assembly of the Company, June 20.
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In a way, he was the first starting from the government, with an almost official departure before that of Jean Castex. The former minister delegate for transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, will leave the public sphere for the world of private enterprise and integrate the Hopium start-up, and the announcement was made before the official resignation of the government , Monday May 16. This very young company – which aims to make high -end hydrogen cars – indeed indicated, in the morning of Monday, its intention to propose the appointment of Mr. Djebbari to its board of directors. The arrival of the latter “will be subject to the approval of the next General Assembly of Hopium, June 20, 2022”, said the company in its press release.
A Minister of Transport who leaves the Government to immediately spin to a… transport company. The fact did not fail to arouse reactions on social networks. The accusations of “pantouflage” followed one another online. “Mixture of genres, opportunism and conflicts of interest,” twisted the European deputy EELV David Cormand, adding that the fact was indicative of “all the perversity of the Republic on the march, which will never have been something other than Republic of merchants plagued by business and lobbies. “