Overview

• Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu named the 51-year-old MoDem deputy for Savoie to succeed Marie Barsacq.
• Ferrari becomes the fourth sports minister in roughly 18 months, following Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Gil Avérous and Barsacq.
• She previously held brief roles as secretary of state for digital under Gabriel Attal and as minister delegate for tourism, where she worked on the 2030 Winter Games file.
• Her immediate agenda includes reviving an Olympic bill approved by the Senate in June that has remained stalled after government reshuffles.
• She inherits a sensitive budget context after Barsacq warned of cuts to sport that prompted an unusual mobilization by elite athletes.