Overview
- At a first campaign meeting at Le Sucre in Confluence, organizers said about 800 people attended as Grégory Doucet opened his bid for a second term.
- Doucet vowed to keep rent controls in place and announced a municipal rent guarantee, placing housing security alongside climate and public safety in his priorities.
- He dismissed Jean‑Michel Aulas’s signature plan for new double road tunnels under Lyon to ease the Fourvière bottleneck, a project backers estimate at around €2 billion.
- Aulas, the former Olympique Lyonnais president backed by center and right forces, leads recent surveys, including a report of roughly 45% first‑round intentions and a December poll showing 60% in a head‑to‑head second round against Doucet.
- The campaign tone has sharpened, with Doucet accusing Aulas of spreading “fake news” as left forces try to unify despite an LFI list running separately.