around fifty leaders from the sporting world provide their support – Libération

Two weeks after the start of the controversies targeting the superportfolio minister including National Education and Sports, 50 leaders showed their support this Saturday, January 27 in an open letter published on the “La Tribune” website.

Better late than never. Around fifty leaders from the sporting world this Saturday, January 27, gave their support to Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, under fire from criticism since her appointment as Minister of National Education, by calling on the educational community to “take the time to [la] discover”.

In an open letter published on the Tribune website, 50 leaders, including 20 Federation presidents, wrote this Saturday early in the evening with the aim of “expressing [leur] respect and [leur] gratitude to a minister who knew […] be up to the task, with listening, demands and leadership.” Among them, the presidents of the French handball federations, Philippe Bana, tennis, Gilles Moretton, basketball, Jean-Pierre Siutat, rugby, Florian Grill, and even the high performance manager within the National Sports Agency. sport, Claude Onesta.

A critical report on sports federations

Appointed on January 11 at the head of a superministry bringing together National Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has since come under fire from criticism, in particular because of the schooling of her children in the private and very reactive Parisian school Stanislas and his declarations on the Littré public school and its “packages of hours not seriously replaced”.

According to the letter published this Saturday, the signatory leaders “were happy” with his appointment “for the future of the school, for you as a member of this educational community so precious for the future of our children” and finally because “all begins at school, also, or even above all, the practice of physical and sporting activity.

The text also promises that his arrival at the head of the Ministry of Sports and Olympic Games was welcomed in May 2022 with high standards: “Our expectations were high in order to have the capacity to meet the challenges that presented themselves to us and to undertake the necessary reforms,” write these leaders. And to continue in their declaration of love: “We have learned to work with the one who has proven to be an effective minister and a committed politician, who knows how to demonstrate empathy but also foresight, always placing the interest general at the heart of its decisions.”

“We advise you to take the time to discover it, because it will reveal itself as it was with us, always full of attention and respect, in order to initiate the necessary reforms,” it is finally indicated.

But business is also on the sporting side for the minister. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra was targeted at the start of the week by a parliamentary report on sports federations which highlighted her “abnormal” salary when she headed the French Tennis Federation. A document that she described as “militant” and whose work was “instrumentalized for political purposes”, swept those around her.