JO-2024: not invited to a "site meeting", Pécresse and Hidalgo tackle Macron

"The city of Paris, signatory of the host city contract and the Ile-de-France region have regretted not being associated with this initiative", indicated the president of the Ile-de-France region and the mayor of Paris. in a joint statement titled "No Communities, No Games".

The former Republican and Socialist Party presidential candidates, with notoriously strained relations, recalled with one voice that "communities are an essential link" in "the success of major international sporting events".

If they castigated a "two-step operation", Valérie Pécresse and Anne Hidalgo however welcomed the "progress point with elected officials" planned "at the start of the school year" by the Head of State, rejoicing that he takes "finally note that nothing can be done without the local authorities."

Overheated budget, doubts to be dispelled about the safety of the opening ceremony on the Seine: Emmanuel Macron will chair a meeting between prefects, ministers and technical services on Monday.

The executive has planned to discuss the "good conditions, for all the delegations, of security, organization and completion of the work" two years before the start of the Olympics.