in Lyon, outgoing mayor Grégory Doucet hopes to beat the percentages in opposition to favourite Jean-Michel Aulas | EUROtoday

For the launch of his marketing campaign, Saturday January 17, Grégory Doucet, 52, took the alternative place of Jean-Michel Aulas, 76, favourite within the polls within the race for mayor of Lyon, for the elections of March 15 and 22. The outgoing mayor of Lyon (Les Ecologistes) fastidiously prevented personally attacking the previous president of the Olympique Lyonnais soccer membership, in order to not play a job in mutual denigration.

Supported by the best and heart events (Les Républicains [LR]Union of Independent Democrats [UDI]MoDem, Horizons, Renaissance), Mr. Aulas saturates the media area, by multiplying for a number of months spectacular bulletins and harsh criticism in opposition to the ecologists judged “dogmatic”.

Faced with this highly effective dynamic, Grégory Doucet, on the head of the union lists of the left (Ecologists, Socialist Party, Communists, Place publique, Génération.s, L’après), most well-liked to talk “of a peaceful and protective city, of an inclusive and hospitable city”throughout his first assembly at Sucre, a modern venue within the Confluence district. “We don’t want to spend our time responding to insults and demagoguery, we want to put values ​​back into the campaign and define a real vision for the future”decodes Benjamin Badouard, elected to the Metropolis of Lyon and architect of the inexperienced wave which introduced environmentalists to municipal and metropolitan energy in 2020.

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