The cultural sector welcomes the appointment of Bachelot but hopes for concrete measures

Cultural and media circles welcomed the arrival of a heavyweight in politics on Tuesday with the appointment of Roselyne Bachelot to the Ministry of Culture but stressed the magnitude of the task awaiting him in this stricken sector.

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" I will be the minister of artists and the minister of the territories" , assured the new tenant of the rue de Valois during the handover with Franck Riester Monday evening, saying he wanted "to put culture at the heart of the reconstruction plan for our laminated country by an economic, health, social and moral crisis ” .

"The absolute urgency at the start of this summer will be to help restart and restore cultural sites: festivals, theater museums, cinemas, historic monuments" , she underlined. As of Tuesday, she was pacing the corridors of the Louvre reopened the day before.

The appointment of the former Minister of Chirac and Sarkozy who, from 2012, had stopped his political career for a new life as a television and radio columnist and enjoys a certain popularity with the public, was applauded by professional organizations in the sector.

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"A prominent personality" for Adami (artist authors) while Scam (society of authors) underlines " his political career and his experience of the machinery of the State" , just like the music producers of Snep who recall that she is "in love with music and culture" .

"Indisputable assets in the difficult context that we live in," sums up the SACD (songwriters) with a "loss for the creative and cultural sector amounted to at least 22 billion euros" , "a live performance disaster totally 'stop' or 'an audiovisual field whose revenues have experienced a historic fall' ...

Strong ministry?

"We hope that this is the signal that culture will be among the main subjects of this end of the quinquennium and that it is the sign of a strong ministry because it has been weakened for several years," said AFP Aurélie Hannedouche. , from the Syndicate of Modern Music (Sma).

Current music awaits "quick responses" to be able to reopen concert halls this fall, but also new financial support to revive companies "on a drip" , she explains, welcoming the announcement the day before to organize quickly the "general state of festivals" .

"We ask not to be sacrificed by the reshuffle," alerted his side Frantz Steinbach, who chairs the committee of night sector, festive musical places and life, at the crossroads of the ministries of Culture and Tourism. With an activity that has been stopped for four months, the world of the night plays according to him its survival.

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"I hope it will have the means of its action but remains to be seen how the budget will be , " wondered France Culture the director of the Avignon Festival Olivier Py, stressing that the minister had "before her the works of Hercules ”.

Culture in ideal

Third Minister of Culture for Emmanuel Macron after Françoise Nyssen and Franck Riester, Roselyne Bachelot reserved her first public outing Monday evening at Radio France, the house where she kept a musical chronicle on France Musique.

While the major audiovisual reform planned by its predecessor was the victim of Covid-19 to become a series of decrees and orders, it praised with Franceinfo a "public audiovisual of great quality" .

"Sometimes, when I was asked about a return to politics, I replied: '' No, never, except to be Minister of Culture ''. And it was like a kind of ideal, " she said, still to our colleagues at Franceinfo, while many Internet users relayed one of her television passages where she assured that she would never do more Politics.

A first petition has already landed on his desk, launched by teachers of architecture schools who deplore a lack of resources and signed by more than 200 people.