PARIS (AP) - The snap national election called by French President Emmanuel Macron will not impact the Paris Olympics, IOC president Thomas Bach said on Monday.
IOC boss Thomas Bach says snap elections in France won’t impact the Paris Olympics
PARIS (AP) - The snap national election called by French President Emmanuel Macron will not impact the Paris Olympics, IOC president Thomas Bach said on Monday.
Bach said the Paris Games have always had broad support across the French political spectrum and added, "I have no indications whatsoever that this unity will break now, just … before the Games open."
The French legislative elections will take place in two rounds on June 30 and July 7, three weeks before the July 26 opening ceremony in central Paris that will include a floating parade of athletes on the River Seine.
Macron dissolved the lower house of France's parliament in a surprise announcement on Sunday after his centrist party was handed a humbling defeat by the far right in elections for the European Union parliament.