Opposition leader Florian Grill has been elected president of the French Rugby Federation and succeeds Alexandre Martinez, interim president since the resignation of Bernard Laporte, the FFR announced on Wednesday. The former president of the FFR had resigned after his two-year suspended prison sentence in the Laporte – Altrad case.
The opposition to Laporte within the steering committee of the Federation, embodied by the president of the League of Ile-de-France Florian Grill, had then resigned en bloc. An interim president, the treasurer of the FFR Alexandre Martinez, was then appointed to manage day-to-day business. Grill, who was opposed to Patrick Buisson, majority candidate, was nominated 58.14% by some 1,900 French clubs and will be in office until the fall of 2024.