“It's a shock. A terrible blow for all those who deeply love Olympique Lyonnais. »» After the announcement of the Ligue 2 demotion of his lifelong club, Jean-Michel Aulas had expressed his emotion.
“For 36 years, I made sure that such a situation never could occur. I gave everything to build a solid club, respected, ambitious and healthy financiallyallowed himself to add the former owner of OL, who sold the club to John Textor in 2022. Today is sadness that dominates. And immense misunderstanding. »»
The message had passed, even if Aulas will add that he did not want to say too much, “Out of respect for institutions. »» The 76 -year -old leader is an end communication, and also a skilful policy. It is also on this playground that he now officiates.
Aulas in Lyon, return to the front of the stage
Since February 2025, Jean-Michel Aulas no longer hides his ambition to run for the town hall of Lyon to the municipal elections next year. Politically opposed to the outgoing mayor Grégory Doucet, the former boss of OL has good reasons to believe it.
The Harris Interactive/ Toluna survey published this week by Actlyon, it is also at the top of the voting intentions. Supported by Horizons, Renaissance, Modem, Les Républicains, the list carried by Jean-Michel Aulas would collect 36% of the votes. This is nine more points than the ecologist Grégory Doucet (23%), who benefits from the support of the PS and the PCM.
“This dynamic is based on a gathering capacity far beyond traditional partisan cleavages, Observes Jean-Daniel Lévy, Deputy Director-Political and Opinion Strategies of Harris Interactive.Jean-Michel Aulas collects 73 % of the former voters of Yann Cucherat (LREM), 68 % of those of Étienne Blanc (LR), 54 % of the voters of Emmanuel Macron, but also 13 % of those who had voted for Grégory Doucet in 2020. He is the only one to aggregate so much electorates from the center, the republican right, and part of the moderate left. »» In Lyon, Aulas could therefore quickly return to business …
