A bit bitter defeat. Gérard Collomb will have missed his exit, missing the bet to keep the city of Lyon by installing his foal Yann Cucherat at the controls of the town hall. Also missing his bet to dismiss the Greens from the metropolis of Lyon. The new wave of environmentalists, unknown in politics, takes everything this Sunday evening during the second round of municipal elections. Enough to give some regrets to the outgoing mayor of Lyon, who does not hesitate to slip some tackles of which he has the secret before returning the keys to the town hall after 19 years of reign.
“They are a bit of an ecology of the past. We had proposed an ecology of the future… Things are like that, ”he says in front of the television cameras. And to add: “A page turns. We will see how this new page is written ».
"Now we will have to move from theory to practice"
“We realize that across the country, there is an extremely significant green growth. Lyon was swept away like many other cities by this green push. Now we have to move from theory to practice. Environmentalists have never been in power in big cities so they have never been able to show what they were doing exactly. We will see it with the cities they conquered this evening. "
The former interior minister remained unclear about his political future. The scores recorded this evening do not suggest that it can still play a role in the coming months. "In any case, I will continue in the debate of ideas, helping those who have been with me during these past weeks," he replied, defending the sealed union with the Republicans before the second round. “If we hadn't had this big rally, we would probably have lost all the boroughs and many other ridings. So we somehow thwarted a movement that was too strong to be stopped. At some point, you always have to fight, I'm someone who fights. History will judge. "
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The Greens would have won 7 districts of the 9 in Lyon and 9 of the 14 constituencies of the metropolitan area of Lyon on Sunday. These results were yet to be confirmed by the Rhône prefecture.
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