Overview
- Former first deputy Jean-Pierre Berger won the council vote 31–12 to serve as interim mayor, a role he will hold until the March municipal elections.
- Berger, 83, said he will not be a candidate in March and stated he has had no contact with Gaël Perdriau about handing over dossiers.
- Perdriau filed an appeal of his conviction, according to the Lyon prosecutor, and two co-defendants also lodged appeals.
- The ex-mayor is due to be summoned to set the date and place of his incarceration, and his lawyers plan to seek provisional release when custody is ordered.
- The transition has split local opinion, with some residents welcoming continuity and others denouncing the succession as a distortion of democratic norms.