The Minister of Sports, who will not run in the legislative elections, is delighted to see that certain players from the French team are calling to go to the polls during the next elections.
Even if she is careful not to confront the voters, since she will not be in the running during the next legislative elections (June 30 and July 7), the Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games has heard the calls for a vote launched during the recent press conferences of French footballers currently participating in the Euro. Like Ousmane Dembélé, who got involved in this issue to say that we had to vote, but not for or against whom, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra hopes that the world of sport will mobilize in the same direction so that we exceed the 50% participation rate of the last elections. And ultimately, she would not be against a clearer position taken by footballers and more generally by athletes for a camp, and why not hers.
Athletes must talk about the elections
Confident in The Team, the Minister of Sports hopes that between now and the first round messages from athletes will multiply, like the appeal launched this Saturday by Marcus Thuram against the National Rally. “ For all citizens, athletes or not, this is a decisive political moment in which we must get involved. In this sense, I call on everyone to mobilize and vote. I consider that what Ousmane Dembélé said – “The alarm bell has been sounded, go vote” – and Benjamin Pavard is positive and must be amplified. In sport, there are fundamental values: respect for others, diversity, living together… The notion of neutrality, when all that is at stake, makes no sense », Confided Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who obviously does not want to be replaced by an RN or LFI minister during the official opening of the Paris Olympic Games. We will see if this message from the minister will have an echo outside the French football team, which for the moment is not at all the case.
