Facing the CEO, the journalist Florent Chatain and the secretary general of the Court of Auditors, Maïa Wirgin, apply.
A depopulated pretenders’ ball. Arcom, which must designate the next president of Radio France, published Wednesday the names of the candidates vying for the post. One hand is enough to count them since they are only three. Five less than in the previous election, in 2018.
Sibyle Veil, the current leader, announced in September her intention to run for a second term. Faced with the one who appears to be the favorite, the journalist Florent Chatain, who worked for France Inter, Europe 1 and France 3. At the end of July, he too had declared that he wanted to run for the presidency of Radio France with the priority of “overhaul human management” of the group. The candidacy of Maïa Wirgin, secretary general of the Court of Auditors since March, is more unexpected.
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Énarque, like Sibyle Veil, her experience in the audiovisual sector began at Public Sénat, a parliamentary channel of which she became secretary general in 2011. Director of cabinet to Mathieu Gallet, she…