War is well declared.
The campaign for the presidency of the FFT between the current holder of the post, Bernard Giudicelli, and his competitor Gilles Moretton is tending day by day.
Moretton's team (Together for another tennis, EPAT), and Giudicelli's (Agir et Gagner) surrender blow for blow.
At the beginning of November, the election to the presidency of the French Tennis Federation, which was to be held on December 12, was postponed to February 13, 2021, in view of "the epidemiological state of our country"
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argued the executive committee of the FFT.
For his rivals, the president in place was trying to extend a campaign that was poorly embarked for the time being, the Moretton list, being ahead of that of its competitor ... And Moretton, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpea League, had convened a Wednesday exceptional general assembly to modify the date of the elective GA to January 16, postponed to February 13 ...
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But Bernard Giudicelli challenged its legitimacy, and spoke of a "coup".
Consequently, he did not attend and appealed to the Federal Litigation Commission to request that disciplinary sanctions be taken against Moretton and three other members for "statutory breaches
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due to this convocation of the assembly. general.
A war of press releases ensued.
"By wanting to stir up trouble with clubs, those who have made commitments on behalf of the Federation without any mandate have seriously damaged the integrity, reputation and notoriety of the Federation," said a statement from Bernard Giudicelli's Act and Win List.
“This postponement (of the elective GA) accentuates the vacancy of federal life while allowing the incumbent President to mix this role, and the means that go with it, with his posture as a candidate.
With this new episode (with his absence on Wednesday) in the final electoral straight that he dreads so much, the President of the FFT is now taking the institutions hostage and paralyzing federal democratic life, ”pointed out the list for his part. Ensemble Pour un Another Tennis led by Gilles Moretton.
Moretton close to victory
Since the start of the school year, the low blows have followed one another.
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, the day after Roland Garros, on October 13, Bernard Giudicelli called on other members of the National Federations to show their public support for his campaign.
Gilles Moretton's clan then spoke of “interference”.
"With a lot of demagoguery and deception, my opponent makes believe that the image of France has been damaged because of me," Giudicelli wrote.
I just want you to testify to my action within the ITF (the International Federation of which Giudicelli is vice-president, editor's note) and that you send a message to all the clubs on your perception of my role internationally and on your interest in seeing me re-elected at the head of the FFT. ”
War is declared but the match could already be played.
After winning the election in the Ile-de-France League on Thursday, Gilles Moretton took an advantage that could be decisive.
Because the pro list Gilles Moretton won the ballot for the delegates of the Ile-de-France League with 59.96% of the votes, or 12 delegates and 854 votes, according to the counts on twitter of journalist Eric Bassi.
Gilles Moretton reaches 4,735 votes and exceeds the absolute majority of 4,627.
The presidential elections of the French Tennis Federation entered their first phase at the end of September.
It is a complex election.
Very complex, when you have the ambition to decipher it.
To summarize: On February 13, the 198 delegates, elected in October and November, will vote for a list of 50 people.
The first 18 on the list will make up the Comex (executive committee).
The head of the list will become, for four years, the President of the second Federation in France, the second in terms of licensees (972,007).
The 32 seats of the CST (Superior Council of Tennis) are mostly filled (17) on the top list, then proportionally.
It remains to come vote for delegates.
Unless there is an improbable reversal, the vote for the delegates will go in the same direction and therefore Moretton has reached an absolute majority in terms of number of votes.
He will be the new president of the FFT.
- Eric Bassi (@EricBassi) December 17, 2020
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