Her opponent gave up "in the face of the manifest unfairness" of the duel, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra remains the only candidate for the presidency of the French Olympic Committee
By The New Obs with AFP
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Amélie Oudéa-Castera at the France club during the Paris Olympics on August 6, 2024. GABRIELLE CEZARD/SIPA
A victory announced due to lack of a competitor. Former Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra will be the only candidate in the race on June 19 for the presidency of the French Olympic Committee (CNOSF), following the announcement on Saturday of the withdrawal of her opponent Didier Séminet.
"Faced with the manifest inequity surrounding the two candidacies for the presidency of the CNOSF, and given the conditions deemed legal generated by the candidacy of the woman who was Minister of Sports a few months ago, I have taken the decision, with regret but in a spirit of responsibility and loyalty to the values of the sports movement, to withdraw my candidacy," wrote Didier Séminet, president of the baseball-softball federation, in a LinkedIn post .
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra's candidacy had been questioned by her opponents, including former CNOSF president Denis Masseglia, who questioned a potential conflict of interest due to her former position.
A senior civil servant and former high-level junior tennis player and former director general of the French Tennis Federation, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, 47, was Minister of Sports in the Borne and Attal governments from May 2022 to September 2024, where she was notably in charge of the Paris Olympic Games - and briefly combined this role with the Ministry of National Education in January 2024. She left the government after the reshuffle of September 2024.
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On Monday, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra assured, during a major oral discussion reserved for the two candidates, that the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP) had "authorized her to move forward with her candidacy project." Amélie Oudéa-Castéra will therefore be the sole candidate to succeed David Lappartient on June 19 as president of the CNOSF.
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