A small turn and then goes away. The director of cabinet of the Ministry of Sports, Philippe Mahé, left his functions by “common agreement” with Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra less than a week after being appointed, we learned from the ministry on Friday. .
Confirming information from the daily L’Équipe, the ministry reported “different ways of operating” between the former prefect of Finistère and the former director general of the French Tennis Federation (FFT).
The departure comes as the Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games was pushed to the front line alongside Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin after the Champions League final fiasco at the Stade de France on Saturday. last.
Philippe Mahé, appointed on May 25, had worked in the cabinet of Manuel Valls in the past when he was Prime Minister. He was present Tuesday with the minister during a visit and a working meeting at the headquarters of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games. The name of his replacement is not yet known.
Four days after the chaotic evening at the Stade de France and before being heard by the Senate on Wednesday, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra had tweeted: ” Don’t crack under pressure (Do not crack under pressure). Walk. March this morning towards the Council of Ministers”, message accompanied by a photo of her and her security officer crossing a bridge in Paris.
Questioned a few hours later by a senator on this message, she explained: “I can understand that they (the words, editor’s note) were perceived in a negative way. My intention was to try to show that, when a major sporting event succeeds, it positively leverages the practice of sport in France, I would like to avoid having the opposite dynamic. »
She is committed to doing 30 minutes of physical activity a day, one of the measures of Macron’s Sport program in primary school, a measure already experienced but which must be generalized.