Senators again voted on Tuesday for an amendment prohibiting the wearing of the veil during a sports competition, as they had already done during the controversial bill on separatism, which was then erased by the Assembly .
This vote took place within the framework of the examination of the bill on sport examined Tuesday and Wednesday in the Senate. It includes measures on the governance of federations and on the possibility desired by French football to create a commercial company to manage its TV rights.
Maracineanu against this amendment
The LR amendment was adopted by 160 votes in favor and 143 against. It prohibits “the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols” during “sporting events and sports competitions organized by sports federations and affiliated associations”. LR senators tabled a bill on the subject in December.
The Minister for Sports, Roxana Maracinenau, gave an unfavorable opinion on this amendment and highlighted the republican contract of engagement, resulting from the separatism law precisely, which the federations and associations must now sign.
I deeply regret that the @Senate did not vote for parity in the governing bodies of the federations.
We will continue to uphold this conviction in the rest of our work.
Until the end.#LawSport
— Roxana Maracineanu (@RoxaMaracineanu) January 18, 2022
The government has also failed before the right-wing Senate to restore the measure of full parity in sports federations, voted in the Assembly. Senator Olivier Paccaud (attached to LR) was moved that the measure led to “sacrificing goodwill, gentlemen, goodbye! »
The former PS Sports Minister, Patrick Kanner, immediately retorted: “I want to cry when I hear you”, coming to the aid of parity as envisaged by the government and the PS group which had also filed an amendment, also rejected. “The world of sport is an old system, quite conservative, it’s a question of democracy, of renewal”, pleaded Roxana Maracineanu.