Overview
- Belouassa-Cherifi confirmed on October 23 that she will lead La France insoumise’s list for Lyon’s 2026 municipal election against incumbent Grégory Doucet and former OL president Jean-Michel Aulas.
- She said LFI will run independently after the Ecologists opened talks with the Socialist Party and Place publique, arguing her rivals focus on notoriety or an incumbent record rather than proposals.
- A mid-October Verian/Mag2Lyon poll shows Aulas at 47%, Doucet at 23% and Belouassa-Cherifi at 15%, with Aulas backed by Les Républicains and Renaissance.
- Her campaign will launch at a November 6 meeting with National Assembly vice president Clémence Guetté, where she plans to unveil initial measures centered on tackling precarity.
- The 30-year-old first LFI MP from Lyon, a former secretary-general of Mélenchon’s 2022 campaign, leaves the door open to a second-round list fusion based on programmatic agreement.