Six months after her arrival, Marie-Emmanuelle Assidon should, according to our information, very soon leave her functions as executive director in charge of institutions and territories at the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG) in Paris 2024.
Former prefect delegated to equal opportunities with the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, she took office in June 2019, replacing Maïa Wirgin, who had been appointed cultural advisor to the Prime Minister.
This is the 4th departure of an executive director, after Maïa Wirgin, David Lamy, the HR director and the commercial director Frédéric Longuépée, now deputy chairman of the Girondins de Bordeaux and who has been replaced by Marlène Masure. "A normal cycle in the life of a company which will eventually have 4,000 employees," recalls Paris 2024 after each movement.
Possible balance changes
Paris 2024 would also question a repositioning of its public policies in order to place them more at the heart of the "machine". This department, which maintains a permanent link with the various elected representatives of cities, departments and the Ile de France region - stakeholders in the project - could thus be attached to the office of Tony Estanguet and its director, Michaël Aloisio. A crucial issue when entering a new, more concrete phase with the passing of the torch this summer between Tokyo and Paris and less than two months before the municipal elections, where certain changes in balance are possible.
This could in particular be the case in Saint-Denis, where the withdrawal from the political life of Patrick Braouezec, president of Plaine Commune (where the aquatic center and the Olympic village will be built), reshuffles some cards. France Insoumise, fiercely opposed to the Olympics, even if its head of list Bally Bagayoko, hitherto assistant in charge of sport in Saint-Denis, appears more moderate on the subject, could make a breakthrough.