With the Olympics, “people say to themselves that it's not completely over, we can be together and we can be happy together!” | EUROtoday

Paris, the City of Lights, appeared to have light away, as vital discourse concerning the capital has taken over lately. Everything has been criticized, from dust to public transport, parking, insecurity, tradition and architectural initiatives. Its socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has taken a beating, admittedly not helped by her administration technique, her issue in accepting criticism and her bitter failure within the 2022 presidential election (1.75% of the vote).

With the success of the Paris Olympic Games, the elected official has a revenge that isn’t solely private however deeply political. In entrance of the Ukrainian athletes gathered on the City Hall, Thursday 1^er August, she pronounces a vibrant “Slava Ukraine” [« Gloire à l’Ukraine ! »] within the title of the spirit of Olympism and the protection of democracy. “You have been acclaimed by the people of Paris and the people of France!”she throws at them.

In the stands of the Parc des Expositions at Porte de Versailles, or on the Place de la Concorde, she observes, with delight, this pleasure that has seized the French. In her immense mayor's workplace, she expresses satisfaction, anger, aid and a number of other political messages.

Anne Hidalgo is undoubtedly feeling re-energized by this enormous world publicity stunt for the town that the previous labor inspector has been working since 2014. “When there is a shared feeling of fraternity, of sorority, of humanism, which makes us feel good, we Parisians, we French, we are proud!the elected official proclaims. Something incredibly positive is happening, and even good news, I think, for humanity, because there is a connection being made between people on something, where they say it's not completely over, we can be together and be happy together, we can enjoy meeting people who are so different from ourselves.” With this conviction: “The message of the extreme right is being crushed by these Games and by [la] ceremony [d’ouverture]. »

“All populists enter via the identical door”

The mayor has come a long way, and she doesn't really hide it, during the two interviews given, Friday 2 and Monday 5 August, to World. The doubt ? “By taking over ourselves, and sending ourselves, buckets, buckets and buckets of… [elle s’interrompt]. I'm not going to say the phrase. [Elle reprend] Buckets of unfavorable issues on the face »But the primary eleven days of the Olympic Games had been nearly unanimously praised, in France and overseas, for the ambition of the opening ceremony and the truth that the Games had been positioned within the coronary heart of the town. “We achieved this, we didn't think we were capable of it. Especially after years of bashing for me, years of destruction of a positive image of Paris, of what we are together, of the French, of this very special people who are always looked at with astonishment and a little admiration from abroad.”

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