- In Lyon and in the Lyon metropolitan area, environmentalists came out on top, inflicting a major correction to the lists of alliances negotiated by Gérard Collomb with the Republicans.
- The Greens are guaranteed to have the majority of seats in the town hall and in the metropolis, where Grégory Doucet and Bruno Bernard are to be elected in the coming days.
A comfortable majority who should leave their hands free to lead as they please. Unknown or unknown a few months ago in the political sphere, the ecologists Grégory Doucet and Bruno Bernard managed to impose themselves on Sunday in Lyon and in the metropolis, during municipal and metropolitan after 19 years of Collomb reign. In the aftermath of this historic election, marked by record abstention (62% in Lyon), 20 Minutes looks back at the main lessons learned from this election night.
Greens impose large defeat on Collomb teams
The results of Sunday evening confirmed in Lyon the strong plebiscite of the ecological lists recorded on March 15, and the total disavowal for the lists of alliance with the right negotiated by Gérard Collomb. After nineteen years of reign, the former Minister of the Interior paid a high price for his union with Les Républicains for the city and the metropolis. Sunday evening, the Greens thus won seven of the nine arrondissements, including the historic stronghold of Gérard Collomb, totaling 52.8% of the vote in Lyon, far ahead of the colt of Collomb, Yann Cucherat (Ex LREM / LR), and the former mayor of Lyon Georges Képénékian (without label, 16.8%). Even in his historic stronghold in the 9th arrondissement, where he was top of the list, Gérard Collomb was devoured by the Greens, the ecological candidate Camille Augey having won 63.23% of the vote.
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The right retains its two arrondissements
The alliance concluded between Yann Cucherat (ex-LREM) and Etienne Blanc for the town hall of Lyon has paid off in only two districts, previously held by the right. In the second, the rally candidate Olivier Pierre won with 55.10% of the vote against the environmentalist Valentin Lungenstrass. And in the 6th, the outgoing LR mayor Pascal Blache was easily re-elected with 50.02% of the vote.
The environmentalist wave is also sweeping the metropolis
Most political analyzes before the second round leaned towards a tight ballot in the metropolis, with arbitration planned in the third round. This will not be the case. The environmentalist Bruno Bernard, unknown in Greater Lyon, where he was elected to Villeurbanne between 2008 and 2014 and then was regional secretary of the Greens between 2013 and 2016, won the second round of the metropolitan elections. Union lists with the left led by the 49-year-old entrepreneur won in eight of the fourteen constituencies. The lists led by François-Noël Buffet and Collomb won in four constituencies. Big disappointment for the outgoing president and dissident LREM candidate David Kimelfeld who won in only one constituency: the Val de Saône, won by Marc Grivel.
A majority in the city and the metropolis
To carry out their policy, the Greens should have a free hand. At the town hall of Lyon as at the metropolis, they are guaranteed to have the majority of seats. At the town hall, the environmentalists and their allies of the United Left and of Lyon in common will have 51 of the 75 seats. Eighteen seats go to the lists led by Yann Cucherat and Les Républicains. Georges Képénékian obtains only four seats at the town hall. In the mainland, the Greens are guaranteed 75 of the 150 seats. They should also be able to count on all or part of the 9 seats of Hélène Geoffroy, who came first in the 12th constituency with a union list supported by environmentalists and David Kimelfeld. The Buffet / Collomb lists will have 43 seats and David Kimelfeld should have 21. Bruno Bernard should be elected on Thursday. The future mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet will officially take the head of the town hall of Lyon during a municipal council scheduled for Saturday or Sunday.
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