Overview
- Doucet formally unveiled a joint list bringing together EELV with PS, PCF, Place Publique, Debout, L’Après, Génération.s and Voix commune, explicitly leaving out LFI.
- The campaign kickoff was held in a central Lyon square before roughly 100 activists, followed by leafleting to start the ground operation.
- Jean-Michel Aulas, the former Olympique Lyonnais president, leads two recent polls with 47% in the first round and about 61% in the second, while Doucet is at 23–24% and a projected 39% in a runoff.
- Aulas has unified right and center forces with support from LR, Renaissance and MoDem under the Cœurs Lyonnais banner.
- LFI will run separately with Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi, polling 10–15% and launching her campaign with a Lyon meeting on Thursday, as pro-Aulas accounts dismiss the new left alliance as a “facade” and Doucet’s camp emphasizes social justice and urban adaptation.