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Gilles, Moretton, Florian Grill and Claude Onesta: around fifty leaders from the sporting world gave their support to Amélie Oudéa-Castera on Saturday by calling on the educational community to “take the time to discover (her)”.
Around fifty leaders from the sporting world on Saturday gave their support to Amélie Oudéa-Castera, under fire from criticism since her appointment as Minister of National Education, by calling on the educational community to “take the time to discover (her)” . In an open letter published on the site Latribune.fr, 50 leaders, including 20 presidents of Federations, wrote early Saturday evening with the aim of "expressing (their) respect and (their) gratitude towards a minister who knew (. ..) live up to their role, with listening, demands and leadership".
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Leaders say they are “happy” with his appointment
Among them, the presidents of the French handball federations Philippe Bana, tennis federation Gilles Moretton, basketball federation Jean-Pierre Siutat, rugby federation Florian Grill and the high performance manager within the National Sports Agency Claude Onesta.
Appointed on January 11 at the head of a super-ministry bringing together National Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympics, Amélie Oudéa-Castera has since come under fire from criticism, in particular because of the schooling of her children in the Parisian private school Stanislas and his declarations on the Littré public school and its “packages of hours not seriously replaced”. According to the letter published on 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 "everything begins at school, also, or even above all, the practice of physical and sporting activity.
“An effective minister and a committed politician”
The text also recalls that his arrival at the head of the Ministry of Sports and 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 engage the necessary reforms", write these leaders. “We have learned to work with the woman who has proven to be an effective minister and a committed politician, who knows how to demonstrate empathy but also foresight, always placing the general interest at the heart of her decisions,” continue - they.
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“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. On the sporting side, Amélie Oudéa-Castera was also 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”, those around her said.