COUNTERPOINT – Less than a month before the opening ceremony, we should only be talking about the Olympic Games; we are only talking about the RN and LFI. The Olympic momentum is wasted.
“Talking points” go out of fashion very quickly. Defeat in the European elections? A bad time to get through, Emmanuel Macron’s close associates assured us until June 9. The comments would be bad for twenty-four hours, but fortunately, we would very quickly forget politics to switch to the great and beautiful adventure of the Olympic Games. And the head of state would be able to embody a historic moment of concord, fervor and national pride. France finally united.
Alas, the dissolution and tensions of the political debate have destroyed this beautiful scenario. And it is the Olympics which suffer. The event itself is not in question. Rarely have the Olympics been so well prepared, in all areas combined. This upstream mastery is a feat in which all the actors – the organizing teams of Tony Estanguet, the ministerial actors, Gérald Darmanin and Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the State apparatus coordinated by the prefects Marc Guillaume and Laurent Nuñez, the communities …
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