Appointed Monday during the announcement of François Bayrou’s government, Marie Barsacq is a former lawyer who spent recent years within the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojop).
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Ten days after his appointment to Matignon, François Bayrou now has his government, after the announcement of its composition made on Monday December 23 by Alexis Kohler, secretary general of the Elysée. Marie Barsacq (51 years old) was thus appointed Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life, replacing Gil Avérous, who is leaving this position three months after replacing Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
For more than nine years, this former lawyer held an important position within the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojop) of Paris 2024, since she was director of Impact and Legacy, sector major in Paris’ candidacy for these Games. Within its perimeter, it had in particular the“material heritage (and) intangible heritage, more intangible but equally important things such as the promotion of physical and sporting activity for children”she explained to Franceinfo on May 9, 2024, one month before leaving her post. “Our objectives are also to change the way we look at parity and disability, and to make sport a real vector of return to employment”she specified in Madame Figaro on November 30, 2023. Within this government, theDisability is managed by Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq, Minister Delegate in charge of Autonomy and Disability, attached to the Ministry of Labor and Health headed by Catherine Vautrain.
Marie Barsacq defines herself as a “militant you sport”she who spent ten years within the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) on the issues of employment, training and qualification in the sports movement, but who was also elected to the Executive Committee of the Federation French Football Association (FFF), in charge of amateur football.
Last November, during the Demain le sport event, she said: “After the Games, it is essential to maintain a constructive dialogue between the stakeholders to direct resources towards projects that work, requiring strategic budgetary choices to be made.” It is therefore with the hat of Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life that Marie Barsacq will now work.