Marie Barsacq will be there third holder of the sports portfolio since 2022, and the beginning of Emmanuel Macron's second presidential term. At 51, she succeeds Gil Avérous, who had been in office since September 23. Like the latter, she has the status of full minister and her portfolio covers sport, youth and community life.
The field of sport is familiar to Marie Barsacq: until recently, she was executive director of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojop) of Paris 2024, responsible for so-called “impact” and “heritage” within Cojop.
As such, she had made the fight against a sedentary lifestyle one of her main areas of intervention: she had thus contributed, ahead of the Games, in 2019, to launching the initiative of thirty minutes of daily physical activity at school, which will then be taken over by the government. Its scope also included support, notably through an endowment fund of nearly 19 million euros, for initiatives relating to parity, or the consideration of disability.
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