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Nicolas Zaugra
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Jul 1, 2024 at 12:25 p.m.
; updated on July 1, 2024 at 12:37 p.m.
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It is 8pm when the national results are displayed on a television screen in front of a bar in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon. Faced with the National Rally wave in France, the face of the ecologist mayor Grégory Doucet closes. The mayor of the third city in France notes that the left is being outpaced by the extreme right.
Alongside him, the Lyon candidates and activists of the New Popular Front are torn between tears, anger and shock. But if the RN is ahead at the national level, Lyon “resists” the attacks of Jordan Bardella, rejoices the elected environmentalist. There left is clearly in the lead in Lyon.
VIDEO. The mayor of Lyon in shock at the RN wave
- The New Popular Front confirms its strength
Lyon confirmed Sunday evening to be a stronghold of the leftAs in the European elections, the people of Lyon clearly placed the candidates of the New Popular Front in the lead in the four constituencies of Lyon.
In the 1st constituency, Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi (LFI-new Popular Front) came in far ahead with 42.4% of the vote. In the 2nd constituency, it was also the NPF that won the match. The newcomer to politics, Boris Tavernier (The Ecologists – new Popular Front), narrowly missed being elected in the first round with 49.65% of the vote.
As for the 3rd constituency of Rhône, the outgoing environmentalist deputy Marie-Charlotte Garin has the luxury of being elected in the 1st round (51.51%). The parliamentarian had managed to get elected for the first time in 2022. With this clear victory, she confirms the constituency’s anchoring on the left.
Finally, in the 4th constituency, the socialist deputy mayor Sandrine Runel also won in the first round with 38%, even if the outgoing Macronist MP Anne Brugnera held up better than her colleagues in the other Lyon constituencies.
“Lyon, faithful to its title of capital of the Resistance”
“Lyon, true to its title of capital of the Resistance, has demonstrated that it is possible to put a stop to the RN. The first good news is also the election of Marie-Charlotte Garin (EELV) in the 3rd constituency with more than 51% of the votes, re-elected directly in the first round,” rejoiced Grégory Doucet.
For Bruno Bernard, president of the Lyon Metropolis, “The priority is to beat the RN”.
“In certain constituencies in the Rhône, it is a Les Républicains (LR) candidate who is 2nd ahead of the Popular Front to beat the RN. I am not going to procrastinate for 1,000 years on the fact that the LRs are opponents of my projects at the Métropole de Lyon or that I do not agree with them (…) In cases like this, faced with the “extreme right, I clearly call for voting for their candidate to beat the RN,” he said.
- Outgoing Macronist MPs in danger
In the four districts of Lyon, all Renaissance/Ensemble candidates come in second place and are distanced. Loïc Terrenes (Renaissance) in the 2nd of the Rhône is very far behind the left with only 25.12% where his election seems almost improbable.
Clara Eynault-Lassalle (Renaissance), from “Young People with Macron”, failed in the first round of the election against Marie-Charlotte-Garin.
As for the two outgoing Macronist deputies, it is Thomas Rudigoz (1st constituency) who appears to be most in danger. He is in an unfavorable ballot (29.72%) against the LFI candidate Anaïs Belouassa-Cherifi, far ahead (42.40%) in the context of a triangular with the RN.
The elected official, who benefited from Gabriel Attal’s visit last Friday, believes that “an LFI-Melenchonist candidate risks winning. The RN’s phantom candidate having no chance, he constitutes here a stepping stone for LFI.”
Outgoing MP Anne Brugnera, who came second in the 4th constituency, could benefit from a transfer of votes from LR. Eliminated candidate Romain Billard calls for “blocking the far left”. The RN qualifies with the candidacy of Yannick Chaumont (RN).
The “cradle” of Macronism with the investment of former mayor Gérard Collomb could well see its last deputies disappear. In 2017, LREM candidates won the four Lyon constituencies…
Even if Grégory Doucet is delighted to be at the head of the “capital of the Resistance” facing the RN, Jordan Bardella’s party is enjoying undeniable progress and is at record levels.
If he has no chance of victory, the RN qualifies in two out of four constituencies in LyonThe party achieved 18% in the 1st and 4th. It is less strong in the other two with 14%.
In 2022, the far right was below 10% in all four constituencies. Two years later, it is significantly above.
At the district level, the RN exceeds 20% in the 2nd district with a score more than twice as high as LR. It comes close to this threshold in the 5th and 6th.
- The right erased in Lyon
Latest notable trend in the city: the clear erasure of the Republicans and the so-called Republican right. LR is eliminated in all the constituencies of Lyon and above all collapses in favorable strongholds, the 2nd and 6th arrondissements led by the local right where the RN has a clear advance.
The right is fourth in all the districts of Lyon where the RN manages to overtake it. Bad news for the right which hopes to win Lyon in the next municipal elections…
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