Olympics: Upcoming French elections ‘unsettle’ Paris 2024 build-up
Macron announced the two-round parliamentary elections on June 30 and July 7, with the Paris Olympics set to begin less than three weeks later on July 26.
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Snap French parliamentary elections called just weeks before the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics are “extremely unsettling”, the city's mayor said on Monday, as political turmoil emerged as an unexpected risk to the July-August Games.
French President Emmanuel Macron said he was dissolving the national assembly on Sunday after results from European parliamentary polls showed major gains for the far-right.
“Like a lot of people I was stunned to hear the president decide to do a dissolution (of parliament),” Anne Hidalgo said Monday during a visit to a school outside of Paris with the head of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach.
Hidalgo said she was “worried” by the election results and acknowledged that Macron, a domestic rival, “could not continue as before”.
“But all the same, a dissolution just before the Games, it's really something that is extremely unsettling,” the 64-year-old Socialist added.
Macron announced the two-round parliamentary elections on June 30 and July 7, with the Paris Olympics set to begin less than three weeks later on July 26 in the presence of more than 100 heads of state.
The vote could lead to political instability if no party wins a majority, or a seismic change if the far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen emerges as the...
