In Lyon, the historic capital of Macronie, Gérard Collomb and La République en Marche suffered an unprecedented defeat. The capital of the Gauls had the particularity to proceed on Sunday to two elections, the municipal and the metropolitan ones: both severely sanctioned the one who reigns there master for 18 years.
In the middle of the evening, Gérard Collomb received a first slap with the results of the city of Lyon which placed its candidate, Yann Cucherat, in third position with only 14.9%, far behind the environmental candidate Grégory Doucet (29%), in pole to take the town hall.
During the night, Gérard Collomb suffered a second shock when the results of the Metropolis fell. With only 16.5%, Gérard Collomb comes in fourth, far behind the EELV candidate Bruno Bernard (22.55%), the LR François-Noel Buffet (17.65%), and his rival, the dissident LREM David Kimelfeld (16.92%).
An internal war at LREM
These results, catastrophic for the "Collomb house", had not been perceived by the polls, which made the blow even harsher. "There is an undeniable push from the Greens," admitted Gérard Collomb, 72, who isolated himself in his office at the Hôtel de Ville (where his municipal reign began in 2001) to scrutinize the results. .
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Multiplication of pollution peaks, scorching summers ... The people of Lyonnais have been seriously concerned for a few years about climate change and have made it known. But in Lyon, where Emmanuel Macron launched his conquest of power in 2016, it is also the internal war that rages inside LREM. And it is very expensive in Collomb. In the fall of 2018, the precipitous return of the Minister of the Interior - who had resigned with a clash from the government - in his city had caused the ranks of En Marche to burst. And pointed his lieutenants, Georges Képénékian and David Kimelfeld who did not hesitate to leave as dissident candidates ... Fatal decisions for their ex-political boss.
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Sunday evening, Gérard Collomb called his friends from yesterday to "fix the mistakes" of the divisions. But the alliance game should not allow him to aspire to the Metropolis, as he dreamed of. Its ex-partners are already turning to environmental candidates, in the city of Lyon, as in the Metropolis. With an uncertainty: the voters will drive the point as of next Sunday, or will it be necessary to wait still a few months before a second turn does not definitively turn the page Collomb?