Spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye announced Wednesday after the Council of Ministers that the resignation request of the president of the French Federation of ice sports was "obviously shared by the whole government". Didier Gailhaguet's press conference is expected in the afternoon.

Didier Gailhaguet's resignation request is "obviously shared by the whole of the government," government spokesman Sibeth Ndiaye said on Wednesday, shortly before the long-awaited press conference by the patron of French skating.

"A moral responsibility"

Faced with accusations of sexual violence in figure skating, the president of the French Federation of Ice Sports (FFSG), "obviously has a moral responsibility". "The executive which is in place (within the FFSG, Editor's note) is not able today in a serene way to correctly administer this federation", she added, during the report of the Council of Ministers.

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