Amélie Oudéa-Castéra announces the creation of a committee to reflect on the “ethics and democratic life” of sport

The Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, announced Thursday, March 2, in the daily The world the upcoming installation ofa national committee to strengthen ethics and democratic life in sport“while the football and rugby federations are in crisis. This announcement comes the day after the resignation of the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët, after a showdown of several month with the Minister of Sports.

“I have taken the decision to set up a national committee to strengthen ethics and democratic life in sport, which will be set up soon and will be composed of indisputably qualified personalities, coming from all walks of life, whose experience and complementarity glances will allow us to have the necessary perspective and the ambition for reform that we need“, she writes in this forum.

This committee willnext fall, proposals around three axes: a more ethical, more democratic and more protective governance of sport for practitioners“.”This work will feed, after the Olympic and Paralympic Games (from July to September 2024, editor’s note), changes to the legislative, regulatory and statutory framework to make the necessary improvements.“, adds Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.

About “the succession of governance crises in French sport“, the Minister of Sports believes that”they all say the need to support concrete and definitive changes to strengthen the institutions of French sport“.

A text on sport was however voted in March 2022 and includes measures concerning governance (some of which have not yet been the subject of implementing decrees), such as more parity and a three-term limit for presidents. of federations. This text, defended by the former Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, allows “important advances“, according to Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.”In this respect, I salute the in-depth work undertaken by the sports federations, with the support of the State, to put in place this renovated framework.“, she praises in the gallery.