After meeting this Thursday with former Prime Minister Michel Barnier, in charge of the French Alps 2030 file, Sports Minister Marie Barsacq announced that the establishment of the COJOP must take place “at the beginning of February”.
The new Minister of Sports Marie Barsacq has taken the 2030 Olympics file in hand. This Thursday morning, as we announced, she met Michel Barnier, the former Prime Minister, responsible for bringing order to this Alps 2030 project, which has been slipping for many weeks. The establishment of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP), whose headquarters will be in Lyon near Saint-Exupéry airport, is imminent.
“We are going to work hand in hand with Michel Barnier on this subject, he must meet the regional presidents soon, just like me, and we will surely have a constitutive AGM at the beginning of February,” declared the minister in margin of a trip to Insep. “Things will settle down, now we can get everyone aligned, so let’s be optimistic, it will happen. »
Barnier commissioned by the IOC
Made available by government censorship in early Decemberthe former Prime Minister, who was the co-president of the organizing committee for the Albertville Games in 1992, was “missioned by the IOC, a one-year voluntary mission, to support the prefiguration of the organizing committee”, recalled Marie Barsacq . The Savoyard, from the same political family as the two regional presidents concerned (Fabrice Pannekoucke for AURA and Renaud Muselier for PACA), “plays a very important mediating role,” she said.
-The necessary Olympic law
Marie Barsacq also mentioned “the first half” for the adoption of a necessary Olympic law. The postponement of the budget vote due to censorship had the effect of scuppering the vote on the State guarantee demanded for several months by the IOC.
Who is the boss?
Behind the scenes, we are still working on the identity of the future boss of the Olympics. According to several sources contacted by AFP, the IOC and the Elysée are pleading in favor of six-time Olympic biathlon champion Martin Fourcade, who still holds the rope, even if Laurent Wauquiez, former LR boss of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region ( and special advisor to the president Fabrice Pannekoucke) today president of the LR group in the Assembly, still seems reluctant. Marie Barsacq gave no indication of the identity of the future boss of the 2030 Games but it should be made official by the end of January.
