who’re the principle candidates? | EUROtoday

Will the Environmentalists and the Union of the Left handle to stay in command of Lyon city corridor? Candidate for re-election, outgoing mayor Grégory Doucet (Les Ecologistes) is in nice issue, dealing with Jean-Michel Aulas, civil society candidate allied to the suitable and the central bloc. The businessman, former president of the Olympique Lyonnais (OL) soccer membership, is clearly on the high of opinion polls.

This duel, bipolarized between two conceptions of society, tends to make the 4 different candidates credited, at this stage, with 4 to 10% of the votes within the first spherical invisible. But the brand new voting technique, determined by the reform of the Paris-Lyon-Marseille (PLM) electoral legislation, complicates the forecasts. In Lyon, voters will vote thrice, and never twice, as in Paris and Marseille. They will elect their district mayor, that of the central city corridor and the councilors of the metropolis, the one intercommunal group elected by common suffrage in France.

Grégory Doucet advantages from the assist of the elements of his outgoing majority, however he struggles to impose himself, confronted with the notoriety of Jean-Michel Aulas. The left presents itself fragmented within the first spherical, with the candidacy of the deputy Anaïs Belouassa-Chérifi (La France insoumise, LFI), that of the previous deputy for tradition Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert (with out label and supported by the novel left social gathering, PRG), and that of Georges Képénékian, former mayor of Lyon (2017-2018). Alexandre Dupalais, candidate for the alliance between the Ciottists (UDR) and the National Rally (RN), might convey the far proper again to the Lyon municipal council.

Who are they, what challenges do they face? The World presents the six principal municipal candidates in 2026.