After the many dysfunctions that have appeared in certain French sports federations, environmental deputies want to create a parliamentary commission of inquiry devoted to sports federations.
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The group of environmental deputies will present Tuesday, June 6 to the National Assembly a draft parliamentary commission of inquiry devoted to sports federations, several of which are faced with dysfunctions, franceinfo learned on Monday from the deputy Europe-Ecology Les Verts (EELV ) Sabrina Sebaihi, confirming information from the newspaper the team.
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The Green MP behind the project points to a “structural dysfunction in sports federations” which reflects on the whole movement of sport. “Not a day goes by” without that “splash the sports movement”. Recently, the tennis, rugby, judo and football federations have been questioned for their internal functioning or are at the center of cases of corruption or sexist and sexual violence.
“A questioning of the means”
Sabrina Sebaihi intends to work on several axes: gender-based and sexual violence, discrimination, whether racist, homophobic or gender-based, and corruption. The MEP considers in particular that there is “questioning the means”, because “we have the feeling that they are colossal at the level of the federations”while we see “the few resources available to sports clubs and volunteers at the territorial level”.
“All his affairs are breaking the trust between the French and this world of sport.”
Sabrina Sebaihi, EELV MPat franceinfo
The project will be presented to the office of the National Assembly on Tuesday. The text will be “controlled by the Keeper of the Seals” to check that it is in conformity and to give a legal framework to the commission, details the deputy. After a maximum period of one month, the call for applications will be launched. The commission of inquiry can have up to 30 members.
The work can begin and last a maximum of six months. A report will be submitted at the end of the debates with recommendations. Sabrina Sebaihi imagines “a cross-party group” For “work on legislative proposals”. The other components of the Nupes, or the deputies of the Renaissance majority are “very interested in working on the sports movement”assures the elected EELV.