2023-11-17 17:06:03
Amélie Oudéa-Castera, in Paris, November 8, 2023. CLAUDIA GRECO / REUTERS
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra knew that the question would be asked of her. Questioned, Thursday, November 16, by members of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the failures of sports federations, the Minister of Sports was invited to give information on the remuneration she received, from March 2021 to May 2022, as general director of the French Tennis Federation (FFT). Before the deputies, Ms. Oudéa-Castéra then argued that her generous salary at the time could be justified by the good economic health of the FFT, adding that the instance did not affect “not a euro of public subsidy”. A factual error that the minister recognized the next day, thus avoiding the risk of legal prosecution for perjury.
According to our information, Ms. Oudé-Castéra sent, on Friday, November 17, a corrective letter to the president of the commission of inquiry, Béatrice Bellamy (Vendée, Horizons), and the rapporteur, Sabrina Sebaihi (Hauts-de-Seine, Ecologists). ), recognizing his mistake.
In this missive, that The world consulted, the minister specifies that “the FFT receives subsidies from the National Sports Agency [l’organisme public chargé de la pratique pour tous et du haut niveau] which are credits allocated to sports projects, unrelated to the remuneration of its managers.” “In 2022, 1,280,600 euros were paid by the ANS to the FFT” (431,000 euros more than the previous year), i.e. “an extremely minority share – 0.2% – of the FFT’s total budget”.
This is the lowest ANS subsidy rate, argues the minister, who recalls that “the average rate across all Olympic and Paralympic federations is 21%”. However, the sum does not take into account the technical sports frameworks made available to the tennis federation by the State.
The “windfall” of the Roland Garros tournament
Thursday, during her hearing, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra estimated that the “FFT is able to pay those of its managers at this level subject to precise, substantiated, controlled performance indicators”praising the « business model » of the FFT and highlighting the « manne » that the Roland Garros tournament represents.
“There is no taxpayer money behind [ma] remuneration »had insisted the minister. “In the functions that are mine today, here again, I divide my remuneration by x (…). If I compare my current remuneration to the volume of hours that I put in each week working days, nights, weekends, I am not well paid. It doesn’t matter, I have a fundamental mission at an important moment for the country. »
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