Paris made a step toward a bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024: the Paris City Council Monday approved a commitment vast majority of the capital, only the Greens and the Left Party (PG) voting against. “Here we are engaged in the Olympic adventure!” has welcomed the Mayor of Paris (PS), Anne Hidalgo, newly converted to the nomination after initially expressed strong reservations. She will have to co-sign before September 15, the formal application with the National Olympic Committee and French Sports (CNOSF)
The capital already has three declared rivals. Boston, Hamburg and Rome. The decision of the IOC, which goes Hollande Thursday is expected in the summer of 2017.
“I am excited [...] This is a decisive step on a solid foundation from [ ...]. There are still a lot of work, “ has reacted, after attending the debate, the member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and three-time Olympic canoe champion Tony Estanguet, tipped to lead the bid with the Bernard Lapasset name of the sports movement.
PS elected, PCF, PRG, UMP, UDI-Modem or the overwhelming majority of 163 advisors, approved by show of hands the will of the mayor of Paris proposing that the City commits “fully” in favor of a candidate. All district councils have approved this wish with the exception of II th , where Europe Ecologie-Greens majority.
In an atmosphere of “political truce” according to the president of the centrist group Eric Azière the Paris advisers said their wish that the Olympics are a “unifying project for Greater Paris” they can meet “fractures territorial “ in the city.
” Why is it a Paris bid sense today? First, because it would be a powerful tool in the service of progress that Parisians aspire. Behind the Olympics, we must see thousands of homes built, improving the public transport network, accelerating ecological transition “ has launched Anne Hidalgo.
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The UMP Jean-Francois Lamour, a double Olympic champion and sports minister at the failure of the Paris bid in 2005, dramatized the issue of the “fourth attempt “ after setbacks for the 1992 games (against Barcelona), 2008 (Beijing) and 2012 (London). “A new defeat would sign nothing less than the end of French ambitions to finally host this magical event,” he said. To win, communities need, he said, rank clearly behind the sports movement.
A referendum?
against the current, the Greens have once again expressed their “doubts”. “The same logic of contemporary and IOC Olympic Games is inflation of expenditure and the” growing “,” has estimated the co-chair David Belliard group, noting that the cost of the London Olympics had more than doubled between the initial estimate and the final bill (11 billion euros). Green Co-Chair Anne Souyris regretted a decision “hasty”. “You have announced a citizen consultation in 2016. We welcome this. But why not organize our city before engaging in the race for the nomination? “ she said.
The mayor of Paris confirmed the earlier The organization of this consultation. “2016 is the right time [...] a year before choosing the IOC [...]. We shall see the conditions, I have nothing definite today, “ she said, without ruling out the possibility of a referendum. According to a survey published by JDD there eight days, 72% of Parisians would such a referendum.
The vote of the Council of Paris allows the city to entering Association study in Olympic and Paralympic ambition, alongside the state and the region, and chaired by Bernard Lapasset. The first meeting of this association, with a budget of two million euros supported equally by the four parts, is scheduled for Wednesday
On the menu of its work. The definition of the plan financing of the application (at a cost of approximately € 60 million), the nature of consultation and development of the scheme of future sites.
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