Plan for 5,000 sports equipment: Hidalgo mocks a "plan launched with a com"

Europe 1 with AFP 5 p.m., March 17, 2022

The PS presidential candidate, Anne Hidalgo, on Thursday described the plan for 5,000 local facilities presented last fall by the executive as a "plan launched with a 'com'".

"It is not with the unfortunate equipment plan launched with a 'com' at the end of this five-year term that we will get out of it", she mocked during a "great oral sport" organized by the French National Olympic Sports Committee (CNOSF), referring to the plan launched by Emmanuel Macron for 5,000 local facilities (dojos, skate parks, etc.).

Only three candidates responded: the communist Fabien Roussel, the ecologist Yannick Jadot and therefore the socialist Hidalgo, while the LR candidate Valérie Pécresse defected the night before.

The three candidates present pleaded in favor of the return of a “full exercise” Ministry of Sports, and not attached to the Ministry of National Education as currently, and an increase in the budget dedicated to sport.

Jadot worries about "the threat of privatization of major competitions"

Fabien Roussel proposed in particular for his part the construction of 1,000 swimming pools and 1,000 sports complexes.

He also protested against the proliferation of subscriptions to follow football, for example, "up to 30 to 50 euros per month", "more expensive than a license, it is inadmissible".

For his part, the candidate Jadot worried about "the threat of the privatization of major sports competitions" citing the Super League project in European football, defended in particular by Juventus Turin and Real Madrid.

Furthermore, he added, "we have a problem when the values ​​of sport and major sporting competitions are instrumentalized for political ends", he said, referring to the recent Beijing Olympics and the the future FIFA World Cup in Qatar at the end of 2022.