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Overview
- Grégory Doucet kept the Lyon mayoralty by roughly 3,000 votes, while the 57-commune Métropole de Lyon flipped to the right.
- Véronique Sarselli says she will take the Métropole presidency and move quickly to rework road and transit rules she blames for major traffic jams.
- The split means Doucet must negotiate on transport and planning with the intercommunal authority, which controls a budget several times larger than the city’s.
- Jean-Michel Aulas filed a legal challenge alleging irregularities in the vote and will lead 27 opposition councillors, with protocol placing him to present Doucet the mayoral sash at the first council meeting.
- Europe 1 stresses plans to reverse ecological traffic measures seen as closing the city, while Le Parisien focuses on the ceremonial sash handoff and Aulas’s court bid.