OJ 2024: A parliamentary mission will assess “economic and social benefits”

The deputies Stéphane little (PCF, Seine-Saint-Denis) and Stéphane Mazars (Renaissance, Aveyron) will put a “pre-report” in February 2023.

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The deputies Stéphane No (PCF, Seine-Saint-Denis) and Stéphane Mazars (Renaissance, Aveyron) will look into an information mission on “economic and social benefits” of the Olympic and Paralympic Games from Paris (from July 26 to August 11, then from August 28 to September 8) in order to “assess the ambitions displayed” by the organizers and the State.

“Commitments have been made before the country in economic matters, integration, environment, infrastructure, inheritance, and it is the duty of the Assembly to have an evaluation mission” In terms of “displayed ambitions,” said the PCF deputy during a press conference on Wednesday 19 October in the assembly.

The two deputies said they were “happy” to welcome the Olympic Games because it can “be a beautiful moment of national communion but it cannot be decreed”. “Our state of mind is to assess and make recommendations,” explained Stéphane little.

Questioned about the feelings of the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis compared to the Olympic Games, department to whom a heritage was promised as well as jobs and contracts to very small businesses, “we cannot say that the country And the Seine-Saint-Denis has a craze for games “. “At the same time is it abnormal a year and a half of the event, not necessarily,” added M. little.

He indicated that there was currently in the department, in particular because of the work of Greater Paris, “accumulations of work which create a lot of discomfort and disadvantages”. Their mission will have “a mobility component,” he said.

The mission will not be limited to Seine-Saint-Denis, where around 80 % of material investments are concentrated “There are also metropolitan places where the Olympic Games will be practiced”, said Stéphane Mazars, who will also Look closely at the Terres de Games system, label given by the organizing committee to territories.

The mission will last six months and there will be a “pre-report” in February 2023, said the two deputies, that is to say when the second Olympic law must normally arrive in Parliament.

/Media reports.