Political truce during the Olympics: “We can hardly hear the voices of the opposition anymore”

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For a week now, the country has been buzzing with the Olympic Games in Paris. After several months marked by the European elections and then the legislative elections, political news seems to be taking a back seat with an “Olympic truce” decreed by President Emmanuel Macron. Analysis of the political situation in France with political scientist Bruno Cautrès, CNRS researcher at CEVIPOF and lecturer at Sciences Po.

Ahead of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, French President Emmanuel Macron looks at the Olympic rings on display behind him, in Saint-Denis, northern Paris, on July 22, 2024. (Illustration image).

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