Overview
- Grégory Doucet opened his re‑election campaign Saturday at Lyon’s Le Sucre venue, presenting security, housing and climate priorities to several hundred supporters.
- He vowed to maintain rent controls and proposed a municipal rent guarantee, countering Jean‑Michel Aulas’ promise to abolish the measure.
- Doucet denounced Aulas’ flagship proposal for a double‑carriageway tunnel under Lyon to ease the Fourvière bottleneck, arguing the multibillion‑euro works would not cut emissions or surface traffic.
- A December OpinionWay survey places Aulas well ahead in the first round and at 60% in a projected runoff against Doucet.
- The Green‑led camp is intensifying door‑to‑door mobilization and cites the 2020 upset as precedent, while Aulas draws backing from centrist and right forces as LFI runs a separate list.