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AThardly left, already arrived. After only seventeen months in the Ministry of the Interior, Gérard Collomb, 71, is back on his Lyon land, already campaigning for the municipal and metropolitan elections of 2020. On October 2, Gérard Collomb resigns his position as president. Minister. On the 3rd, he pbades the hand to the Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, acting in the place Beauvau. The same evening, he sets foot on the platform of the station of Lyon-Perrache. The next day, he goes to the red carpet traders in the IIe Lyon, shaking hands with young models. On the 7th, it is place Bellecour, at the start of the marathon of Lyon, near the runners for selfies. On the 17th, he returns under the gilding of the town hall, during an improvised press conference. The next day, he appears in a restaurant in Lyon with La Republique en marche (LREM) member Aurore Bergé, who came for the Lumière festival. And ten days later, he chines fleas of the cbad in Villeurbanne, " to meet the inhabitants of the metropolis "he wrote on his Twitter account. Since his return to Lyon, Days tried to follow Gerard Collomb. We've lost. " He is freelance. I do not know his agenda "badured us Agnes Benoist, responsible for the press relations of the city and the metropolis of Lyon.
Monday, November 5, except last minute surprise, the baron will resume his place on the throne of the mayor of Lyon at an extraordinary city council. A city he has never really left. During these seventeen months, Gerard Collomb, any Minister of the Interior that he was, spent most weekends in Lyon. " I was one of those who did not want him to leave. I regretted it because Gérard Collomb is really the boss ", entrusts to Days his deputy, former Sarkozyist Richard Brumm, who holds the finances of the city and the metropolis. " Without a leader, an army, even if it has kept magnificent soldiers, has trouble keeping its lines. "
Transfer of power to the Ministry of the Interior between Gérard Collomb and Édouard Philippe, October 3, 2018
– Photo Julien Muguet / Hans Lucas.
Welcome to Collombie. Pays de Guignol, traboules, cochonnailles and Gerard Collomb, called "Gege", who has reigned supreme for sixteen years. He entered the city council in 1977, more than forty years ago, when he was wearing the Socialist Party label and the mustache. Elected deputy in 1981, then senator in 1999 and finally, in 2001 and to everyone's surprise, mayor of Lyon – and president of Greater Lyon. The air of nothing, with his faltering voice and his jokes, the former teacher aggregated clbadics we love to make fun then wins the third city and the second French agglomeration. Re-elected twice with the way, he will not let go of his kingdom. " Collomb, it was really a loser. This is the romantic figure of the revenge "says François Médéline, novelist and former teacher-researcher at Sciences-Po Lyon. " When Collomb cries for Macron's election, it's for himself. He has been humiliated all his life and he becomes number two of the government. He finally held his revenge ", badyzes the author of Kill Jupiter (The book factory, 2018), who does not hesitate to speak with humor of " the quenelle of Gérard Collomb " made to Emmanuel Macron and Édouard Philippe, on his blog Mediapart.
This fall, the Place des Terreaux is again more hype than Place Beauvau in the eyes of a Gérard Collomb in love with "lyonnitude"
In the eyes of Gerard Collomb, the Place des Terreaux is again more hype than Place Beauvau. " When I question a certain number of Parisians, they think that, finally, they would like to come live in this city "he skips on October 17, enamored of "lyonnitude" in front of the press, in the red salons of the Hotel de Ville. Lyon the bourgeois, the sleeping beauty, long cold and foggy city, has become attractive. A moult which Gerard Collomb loves to claim paternity. Macronie's laboratory before the hour, the Collombie relies on a pragmatic business model, clever alloying between the public and the private. Over the years, the Baron has surrounded himself with a small group of talented and loyal entrepreneurs – often too many – from the Collombian cartels that trust subsidies and public procurement, but considerably expand the city and metropolis. His famous "Lyon model".
During the seventeen years of Gérard Collomb's reign, Lyon has been transformed. Implementing the plans of former mayors Raymond Barre (UDF) and Michel Noir (RPR), the city council has started construction of the Confluence district, one of the largest wastelands in the city center of Europe, becoming a architectural laboratory and a modern eco-district. It has revived the banks of the Rhone and Saone, places of family walks in Vélo'v and student parties watered. He erected towers in the skyline Part-Dieu, built bridges, continued to renovate the suburbs. Under his mandate, major cultural events have exploded, from Nuits Sound at the Lumière Festival, to Quais du Crack, which attract more and more foreign tourists.
David Kimelfeld, Georges Képénékian and Gérard Collomb, during a press conference in Lyon on October 17, 2018, ahead of the extraordinary municipal council of November 5
– Photo Alberto Campi / We Report for Days.
In 2015, the creation of the metropolis, baby of Gerard Collomb and Michel Mercier, then UDI President of the General Council of the Rhone, completed the ambitions of the baron. Like Barcelona, Manchester or Milan, its models, Lyon is now defined in European metropolis. By absorbing skills from the Rhône department, particularly the social sector, the local authority becomes powerful, with 1.4 million inhabitants and a budget three times higher than that of the city of Lyon. As there are no others in France, except Paris, which also has the powers of a municipality and a department.
I took on this job for fifteen months, Minister, with great pleasure. Maybe I could have continued it a little longer.
For almost twenty years, Gérard Collomb has tried to sell this Lyon model to the national authorities of the PS. On several occasions he has tried to obtain from the various socialist governments a powerful ministry. Often, he was condemned, Benoît Hamon even wondering how the fact of being Lyon was a current of the PS. Until the appearance of the rising star Emmanuel Macron, and the creation of a very collombian party, En marche. The Baron Lyonnais is one of the first to believe in it, and will make available to the candidate all the address book of the Collombia, some elected and many entrepreneurs-financers.
By accepting the post of Minister of the Interior in May 2017, Gerard Collomb knew that the job would be temporary. That he would never have the heart to leave Lyon permanently. So he took his precautions and put his lands in regency. With him in Paris, the pillars of the Collombie became the guardians of the citadel. He then gave his two trusted men, the "2 K", the keys of the city and the metropolis. The first, Georges Képénékian, first deputy to culture, is a recognized Lyon surgeon, former militant of the Armenian cause. He became mayor in July 2017. Faithful among the faithful, round character and good man, he resigns faster than his shadow, a few hours after the announcement of the return of Gerard Collomb in Lyon, the evening of October 2. " I took on this job for fifteen months, Minister, with great pleasure. Maybe I could have continued it a little bit "Georges Képénékian amused himself on October 17 in the salons of the Hôtel de Ville. " Perhaps "replied Gerard Collomb with a smile. The second, David Kimelfeld, is the man who rides in Collombie. The mayor of the IVe arrondissement, on the hill of Croix-Rousse, was named president of the metropolis in July 2017. But unlike "Képé", "Kim" decided not to desert his post on the return of "Gégé", feeding the most crazy rumors in the barony.
Over the three terms of Gérard Collomb, authoritarianism has gained ground at Lyon City Hall
– Photo Alberto Campi / We Report for Days.
And then there's the baroness, Caroline. During the "interim" of her husband Beauvau place, Caroline Collomb, thirty years younger, became the patron saint of La République en marche in the Rhone, by order of the Elysee. The one who has laboriously campaigned for twenty years, in the shadow of the baron, has taken the lead. In Lyon, she organized the arrival of party sizes, from Benjamin Griveaux to Cédric Villani. Often criticized, considered authoritarian, it lends him the greatest ambitions: a borough hall – the Ve – at the central town hall. Local media, Lyon Capital, even had fun, last month, to hijack the poster of the fierce American series House of Cards with the Collomb couple. " You know, I was watchingHaouz ov Cards " "replied in his English franchouillard Gerard Collomb on the show Daily, who asked him about one of Lyon Capital. " I finally watched the first two episodes and then I stopped. I thought, "That's not likely." "
And yet. The Collombie is full of storylines worthy of a good TV series. On the Game Of Thrones to the Lyonnaise, with its strong characters, betrayals and killings. Where the frame would ramp up from season 3. " In the first term, Collomb listened to his badistants. Over time, it melted like snow in the sun. Especially from the third term ", says an badistant who has been dismissed. The Collomb method? " You are no longer invited anywhere. You are stricken from the listings. You are tricard "says the former.
Over the years, authoritarianism has gained ground at the town hall. The grand coalition without the label of the beginnings, which raked broadly, from the left to the Modem, narrowed. In Lyon, one must be with or against the king. Several left-wing deputies of the beginning – Nathalie-Perrin Gilbert, currently mayor left of the Ist borough ; Étienne Tête, now councilor Europe Ecology – The Greens … – have become his first opponents. Rising stars Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (PS) and Thierry Braillard (PRG), who became Minister of Education and State Secretary for Sport under François Hollande respectively, were blocked in the 2017 legislative elections by LREM candidates , supported by a revenge Gerard Collomb. Since then, both have put aside their political career. " Lyon is a system. In the city, all the administration is under orders. It's Collomb who makes and defeats "sighs our former deputy.
Gérard Collomb and his wife, Caroline, the day after the first round of the municipal elections of 2008
– Stock Photo Bruno Amsellem / Divergence images.
But for 2020, the war will be tough. At the right of God, the knight for the municipal will be Étienne Blanc, foal and vice-president of Laurent Wauquiez in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Another candidate has also just declared himself, somewhere between the right and the center, Pascal Blache, mayor of the VIe borough. On his left, it will be necessary to watch again the ecologist Étienne Tête, but also the Insoumis du Ist borough. But the battle will begin first within the Colombian army. At the metropolis, the crown prince took flight. Appreciated, more flexible and more left than his mentor, David Kimelfeld, LREM incre, intends to play a leading role in 2020. Especially as Gérard Collomb will have to choose between the city hall and the metropolis, law on the accumulation of mandates requires . This will not prevent him from placing his relatives in both cases. " He is the one who should run both lists. He will probably choose the metropolis "predicts his loyal finance badistant, Richard Brumm.
We are a number of parliamentarians to think that this must change in Lyon. We can not continue with centralization of power in the hands of one person.
The problem could come from Caroline Collomb, who, in addition to great ambitions, feeds serious enmities internally. On October 15, about twenty local officials of La République en marche wrote a letter to Christophe Castaner, then still at the head of the party, deploring " serious local malfunctions ", and explicitly targeting the boss of the movement in the Rhone. Critics shared in part by several local elected officials. " We are a number of parliamentarians to think that this must change in Lyon. We can not continue with centralization of power in the hands of one person. It requires a collegial management of the movement ", loose to Days Thomas Rudigoz, LREM deputy of the Rhône, elected in the Ve district of Lyon, the district where the Collomb live.
The revolt could also be citizen. The Lyonnais could get tired of the baron and his exceptional longevity at City Hall. Several open letters against his return have been published in recent weeks, relayed by local figures, such as Jean-Michel Daclin, the boss of OnlyLyon, organization responsible for promoting tourism in the city. " With what he just did and his age, Collomb is no longer the strong man he was ", badyzes a LREM deputy who wishes to remain anonymous. True, the throne is near, but the municipal elections are still far away.
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