Legislative 2022: Emmanuel Macron announces measures for sport; Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Calvados – Le Monde

Emmanuel Macron in Seine-Saint-Denis to promote sport among young people The President of the Republic insisted on Wednesday on the importance of sport for young people, especially in working-class neighborhoods, by announcing the extension of the Pass sport system , an allowance of 50 euros for the acquisition of a sports license. Four days before the first round of the legislative elections, the Head of State made a third visit to Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) on social themes, after the hospital in Cherbourg and the school in Marseille. last week. “As of the next school year, we will have half an hour [quotidienne] sport in all primary classes,” said Emmanuel Macron, confirming a promise made during the presidential campaign. Accompanied by the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the President of the French Judo Federation, Stéphane Nomis, and the Mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois, Olivier Klein (DVG), he inaugurated a “solidarity dojo”, which is also a breakdance hall, in a shopping center in this popular city located about twenty kilometers from Paris. Solidarity dojos allow young people to practice judo and related sports (taïso, ju-jitsu, kendo, etc.) for free, just like in a club. The Clichy-sous-Bois dojo is part of the “5,000 sports grounds” plan, announced in October 2021, which provides for the development of five thousand local sports facilities, on the horizon of the 2024 Olympic Games, for 200 million euros. A thousand dojos and martial arts or boxing halls, a thousand multi-sports facilities, five hundred basketball courts and even two hundred mobile pools for teaching toddlers to swim will thus spring up in neighborhoods and rural areas. The Head of State also announced that the Sport Pass, a measure announced in May 2021 to support the resumption of licenses in sports clubs after the health crisis, would be extended to 760,000 scholarship students, in order to encourage the practice. athletic, lower among students. The Sport Pass is currently reserved for young people aged 6 to 18, subject to social criteria.