Overview
- Gabriel Attal said Renaissance will join Jean-Michel Aulas’s Lyon bid, be associated with the campaign’s governance, and he will head a list in the city’s 5th arrondissement.
- Jean-Michel Aulas is already backed by Laurent Wauquiez on the right, with LR’s formal investiture pending, and he has support from UDI and Horizons ahead of a Friday campaign launch.
- In Paris, Renaissance signaled doubts to Rachida Dati during a tense meeting with Franck Riester, with Sylvain Maillard convening deputies this week and a final decision expected by late October.
- At Renaissance’s Arras gathering, Attal outlined a ‘new Republic’ including a constitutional ‘non-regression sociétale’ principle, a points-based pensions system without a fixed legal age, and a points permit for immigration.
- Party strategists frame an alliance-driven municipal approach after 2020 failures, even as absences at Arras underscored internal strains and analysts caution that results may remain modest.