Lyon municipal election, 2008

Lyon municipal election, 2008

Municipal and mayoral elections will be held in Lyon in March 2008, at the same time as other municipal elections. The current Mayor of Lyon Gérard Collomb (PS) should have faced UMP candidate Dominique Perben and MoDem candidate Christophe Geourjon, who finally chose to join the Perben list. Azouz Begag declined to seek the MoDem nomination. Another MoDem candidate was selected by François Bayrou a month before the elections as head of the MoDem list to replace Geourjon and other defectors both to the UMP-led and the PS-led lists.

In the French municipal elections, 2001, the Socialist Gérard Collomb won the country's second largest city from the UDF. Lyon had been considered a stronghold for the centrist UDF in previous years. In 2008, former UMP Transportation Minister Dominique Perben will try to win back the city. Surprisingly, the two highly presumed candidates for the centrist MoDem and the far-right National Front, Azouz Begag and Bruno Gollnisch respectively both announced their intentions not to stand. Two nationalist right-wing parties, the MPF and the DLC (led by Charles Millon), made agreements with Dominique Perben, who inserted their candidates on his list. Subsequently, former right-wing mayor Michel Noir has openly distantiated himself from Perben, most notably in a February interview with the Lyon daily Le Progrès. For the same reason, François Bayrou has decided to maintain a separate MoDem list and not to support the Perben list.

Polls indicate that Collomb has approvals nearing 90% and is favored to win an easy re-election.

Results

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candidate = Gérard Collomb*
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party = Union for a Popular Movement
candidate = Dominique Perben
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party = National Front (France)
candidate = Jacques Boudot
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party = Far left
candidate = Marylène Cahouet
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party = New Centre
candidate = Laurent Mazille
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party = The Greens (France)
candidate = 7 candidates
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party = Socialist Party (France)
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ee also

*French municipal elections, 2008
*Paris municipal election, 2008
*Marseille municipal election, 2008


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