Paris (AFP) – Paris is a step closer to a bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024: the Paris City Council Monday approved a commitment vast majority of the capital, only the Greens and PG voting against.
“We are now engaged in the Olympic adventure!”, welcomed the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (PS), 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 (CNOSF)
The capital has reported three rival. Boston, Hamburg and Rome. The IOC decision – which goes Hollande Thursday – is expected in the summer of 2017
“I am enthusiastic (…) This is a decisive step on a solid foundation from (.. ..) There are still a lot of work, “responded after attending the debates, the member of the International Olympic Committee and triple Olympic canoeing champion Tony Estanguet, tipped to lead the bid with Bernard Lapasset on behalf of the sports movement.
PS elected, PCF, PRG, UMP, UDI-modem or the overwhelming majority of 163 councilors approved freehand the will of the mayor of Paris proposing that the City is committed ” fully “in favor of a candidate.
All the borough councils had approved this vœlu except the second, where Europe Ecologie-Les Verts majority.
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 “territorial fractures” of 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 the ecological transition, “he told Anne Hidalgo.
The UMP Jean François Lamour, a double Olympic champion and sports minister at the failure of the Paris bid in 2005, dramatized the issue of this “fourth attempt” after the setbacks for games of 1992 (against Barcelona), 2008 (Beijing ) and 2012 (London).
“A new defeat would sign nothing less than the end of French ambitions to finally welcome this magical competition,” he said. To win, communities should, in his view, standing clearly behind the sports movement
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against the current, the Greens have once again expressed “doubts” ” The same logic games contemporaries and the IOC Olympic is the increasing costs and the increasingly + +, “said Co-Chair David Belliard group, noting that the cost of the London Olympics had more than doubled between initial estimate and the final bill (11 billion euros).
The Green co-chair Anne Souyris regretted a decision “hasty.” “You announced a civic dialogue in 2016. We welcome this. But why not organize before engaging our City in the race for the nomination?” She said.
The Mayor of Paris had confirmed earlier the organization of this consultation. “2016 is the right time (…) one year before the choice of 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 the JDD there eight days, 72% of Parisians would such a referendum.
The vote of the Council of Paris allows the city to make his entry into the study of Association 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 taken supported equally by the four parts, is scheduled for Wednesday
On the menu of its work. the definition of candidacy financing plan (at a cost of approximately € 60 million) the nature of consultation and development of the scheme of future sites.
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