- Grégory Doucet (EELV) settled this Saturday afternoon in the city of Lyon at the end of the municipal council.
- The new mayor of Lyon took the opportunity to twist the rumors and "dispel misunderstandings".
- "We are not there to destroy but to build," he summed up when setting the course.
" A page turns ". Elected with 51 votes from the 73 municipal councilors of Lyon on Saturday afternoon, the ecologist Grégory Doucet measures the task that awaits him when he sits in the mayor's chair for the first time. Turn the Collomb page and make the city of Lyon "a more virtuous, more sustainable European capital". Start "a new cycle," as he says. And silence the criticisms of which he was constantly the object even before the result of the second round of the municipal elections.
The new mayor of Lyon will not have been spared from the spikes of his opponents, to which he has not responded ... To date.
# Municipales2020 This time it's official. Gregory Doucet is the new mayor of #Lyon. He collected 51 votes from 73 city councilors this Saturday afternoon. pic.twitter.com/M1TTUwg1Bm
- Caroline Girardon (@CaroGirardon) July 4, 2020"Dispelling Misunderstandings"
"We will dispel the misunderstandings," he announced in his first official speech at the head of the city of Lyon. And to develop almost with a smile: “No, we don't want to close the zoo or the Tête d'Or park. We just want to take into account the animal condition and protect the living. ” "We have no idea either to prevent the locals from partying," he continues to twist the rumors about the possible end of the Festival of Lights. Nor does he want to "weaken the economy". "Ecological progress can constitute its matrix," he insists. As for the decrease in the place of the car in the city center? "We don't want to make traffic jams worse, but to get around better," he says.
“Nor are we innocent in terms of security. One of our priorities will be to ensure public tranquility so that people can move around and live in peace regardless of their gender, age or origin, ”said the new mayor of Lyon, who will have to quickly take charge of persistent night-time disturbances in the city center. "We are not there to destroy but to build," sums up Grégory Doucet in front of his new majority, distilling some clues on the course he intends to give.
4 million euros released to help the cultural sector
"The culture budget will be sanctuarized," he reveals. An emergency fund of 4 million euros will be released in the coming days to "raise the cultural sector" hard hit by confinement. Among the projects announced: the creation of an "new green lung" of 80 hectares in the Fourvière sector, the creation of a house for ecological change and an investment plan of one billion euros for renovation thermal of public buildings in the city.
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