2024 Summer Olympics: Hungary announces the abandonment of the candidature of Budapest

"Since in Budapest the required unity has disintegrated, it is now inconceivable that the city could mount a successful Olympic bid. In this situation the only responsible decision is for Budapest and the Hungarian Olympic Committee to withdraw their bid to host the Olympics," announced the Hungarian government on 22/02/2017.

A petition published in January 2017 by the opposition political movement Momentum has collected more than 200,000 signatures against the candidature of Budapest for the 2024 Olympics - a figure twice the minimum required to hold a referendum in Hungary.

Two cities remain candidates to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games:
• Paris (France)
• Los Angeles (United States)

The IOC will designate the host city in Lima (Peru), on 13/09/2017.

• The candidature of Budapest to host the 2024 Olympics was approved by the municipal council of Budapest on 23/06/2015, then by the Hungarian Parliament on 07/07/2015.

"The unity which existed earlier has been dismantled, and the Olympics has become a party political issue" (Hungarian government, on 22/02/2017)

• "The Olympic…