The president of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee, Brigitte Henriques, obtained on Monday the eviction of her right arm, Didier Séminet, secretary general of the institution of French sport.
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Their disenchantment was no longer a secret, divorce is now consumed. Monday September 12, Brigitte Henriques, the president of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), obtained the ouster of his secretary general, Didier Séminet, during a board of directors (CA) gathered in extraordinary session.
“The forty-five members present have spoken, by a required majority and by secret bulletin, for the revocation of the mandate of the secretary general of the CNOSF,” said the body in a press release.
The earthquake at the top of the umbrella institution of the French sports movement returns a very bad image, less than two years from the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris 2024 (from July 26 to August 11, 2024). It is the first time in the history of the CNOSF that the secretary general has landed by the president of the institution. This makes a member of the turnover fear “an institutional and deeper political crisis”. “Isn’t that going to translate a division of federations within the institution?”, He adds to the world.
The relations had been quite electric for several months between Brigitte Henriques, elected at the head of the CNOSF in June 2021, and Didier Séminet, whom the ex-president of the FFF had appointed shortly after her election. However, it was not until the end of August, at the start of the sporting movement, that tensions made the management of the CNOSF disjunct.
Brigitte Henriques explained that the divorce with Didier Séminet was “necessary”, “fruit of a long and difficult reflection”. “There is a schism, the two no longer get along. There is an irreconcilable difference on how to do it,” summed up at the France-Presse agency before the meeting on Monday a source close to the management of the CNOSF.
Monday, September 12, the CNOSF patroness did not give more details on its separation from its right arm. “Brigitte Henriques mentioned a conflict of projects, more than a conflict of people,” said the member of the CA interviewed by Le Monde:
“She also explained, without going into detail, that Didier Séminet did not assume the missions he had to assume. He, to defend himself, replied that he could not afford it . “
With Didier Séminet For Secretary General, Brigitte Henriques believed that he could not fill her roadmap to the Paris Games, according to this source.
“She needed a vote of trust to give herself the means to succeed in the project for which she was elected.”
For Stéphane Nomis, the psychodrama at the head of the CNOSF will leave traces. “It is an immense political and human mess, judges the president of the French Judo Federation – he is not a member of the CA. It is a shame that French sport is divided at two years from the games.”
The replacement for the former president of the French Baseball Federation should be known during a next turnover, whose date is not yet determined, adds the CNOSF press release, which also specifies that Didier Séminet remains a member Ca.
The names of Astrid Guyart, former Fleurettist of silver medalist in Tokyo in 2021 and current deputy secretary general of the CNSOF, and Marie-Françoise Potereau, vice-president of the CNOSF, most often return to the corridors of the French Sport Maison, in the 13 e arrondissement of Paris.