Ecological Mayor Breaks Tradition by Attending LGBTQ+ Student Ball at Lyon Town Hall

More democracy and transparency, politics geared towards the youngest: since 2020, the ecological mayor has left its mark, breaking with the Collomb era.

Nice spotlight for the LGBT + association of Insa Lyon. On June 3, this great engineering school gave its “pride ball” in a highly symbolic setting: the town hall, a venerable 17th century building, with high ceilings, gilding and crystal chandeliers. After a previous edition on the Doua campus, in Villeurbanne, this student party offered itself a move upmarket with a host of choice: the mayor of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts Grégory Doucet. Who swapped his tricolor scarf for another in the colors of the rainbow. The fantasy made the opposition wince, quick to point out the ecologist’s supposed lack of “Lyonnitude”.

“He arrives by doing Sandrine Rousseau politics, form tends to take precedence over substance, while we, Lyonnais, are more withdrawn”, creaks Pierre Oliver, mayor Les Républicains of the 2nd arrondissement, departmental secretary of his party in the Rhône. Yann Cucherat, unsuccessful centrist candidate in the municipal elections, who had been stripped of the nomination of La République en Marche between the two rounds following his rallying to the right of Laurent Wauquiez, abounds: “The ecologists have not left their militant costume, Grégory Doucet is not a mayor who governs and acts for all the actors, he does not have this search for consensus which made the image and the mode of operation of Lyons.”

Admittedly, it has only been “only” fourteen years since Doucet