Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is gaining ground to reconcile education and sports seven months before the Paris Olympics

The former tennis champion keeps sports and will combine with the Olympics and Education with the strong support of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal MAXPPP – Fred Dugit

The Minister of Sports is one of the big winners of the reshuffle. She inherits a ministry expanded to include Education, six months before the Paris Olympics. A mission that she will assume under the close supervision of Gabriel Attal. 

Six months before the Paris Olympics, Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra was one of the rare government executives guaranteed to keep their place. She even benefits from one of the greatest promotions within Gabriel Attal's team, inheriting a super Ministry of Youth, Sports, Education and of the Olympic Games.

Rather than entrusting Education to a new minister, the choice of a grouping is not illogical insofar as Gabriel Attal, who had held the ministry for six months, will keep an eye on warned about these files. While the authorities want to take advantage of the Olympics effect to revive sports practice among the youngest, the strategy even appears coherent. Especially since the former tennis player, who studied at Sciences Po, Essec and Ena (in the promotion of Emmanuel Macron), succeeded to impose himself in 18 months where many ex-athletes who became ministers had failed.

The one who brought down Laporte and Le Graët

Expected at the turning point, the former leader of the Axa group or Carrefour displayed mastery of the files despite a difficult context. He had to manage the disastrous organization of the final of the Football Champions League at the Stade de France. 

She also had the guts to manage in the football and rugby federations, bringing down the heads of Bernard Laporte and Noël Le Graët, who were thought to be untouchable despite the affairs that stuck with them.& nbsp; Enough to consolidate its authority over French sport. Judged as "a war machine" by some of his faithful, as "authoritarian and without qualms" by her detractors, she will have to demonstrate diplomacy to be dubbed by a scalded world of Education.

"A part-time minister is disrespectful"

"Are we going to have a Minister of National Education during the first half and Minister of the Olympics during the second ?", s&#39 ;worries on franceinfo the general secretary of the teachers union Snes-FSU, Sophie Vénétitay. , after the appointment of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to the Ministry of National Education, while retaining her portfolio of Sports and preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. " We are experiencing an unprecedented crisis, we are having difficulty recruiting teachers and we are going to have a part-time minister, who will not be able to take care of National Education full time. This is disrespectful."

Putting announcements into action…

La Parisienne will have to take up in particular the issues of the clash of knowledge, the lack of attractiveness of the teaching profession, the defense of secularism and safety of teachers still traumatized by the assassination of Dominique Bernard in Arras at the end of 2023. Above all, she will have to take action after the numerous announcements from her predecessor…

Her asset ? Very close to Emmanuelle Macron, she will undoubtedly benefit from resources and work closely with the Prime Minister who will keep a keen eye on Education, as he promised the heads of establishments on Tuesday: "Whatever developments are to come, you will always find me at your side."

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