Part IV - The reform agenda for recovered sovereignty
16 - Sport
Sport is a value in itself: school of life, vector of transmission of national values, of effort, of self-surpassing, and of the collective. High-level sport is a natural consequence of a broad and healthy base, not an objective in itself. The State invests in the base: high-level sport follows from it.
Grassroots sport - absolute priority
Sports facilities are the responsibility of the department: swimming pools, gymnasiums, pitches in every territory, including rural areas and overseas territories. Universal access is guaranteed without gender distinction. Amateur clubs are financed by municipalities within their sphere of competence. School sport is integrated into public education as a component of pupil training. Physical fitness is part of civic training within the framework of military service: body and mind are formed together.
High-level sport
It is the natural consequence of a broad and healthy base: not an objective to be achieved in itself through dedicated policies. Public funding is targeted on Olympic preparation with measurable results and the full engagement of federation responsibility. Sports federations operate on a strictly non-profit basis: directors' salaries controlled, total financial transparency. Candidacies for major sporting events - Olympic Games, World Cups, European championships - are supported by the State as a vector of national influence, evaluated on a cost-benefit basis by the Planning Commission. The national anti-doping agency is maintained and strengthened if its results require it: reduced if possible without degrading them.
Professional sport
The State does not interfere. It is a private market that self-regulates: foreign takeovers of clubs, television rights, agents and intermediaries. It is not strategic and it is not the State's role to meddle in it.