(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on March 15, 2026 shows (L) French EELV ecologist party politician and incombant Mayor of Lyon, Gregory Doucet, posing during a photo session in Paris on February 2, 2021, (C) President of Business software publisher Cegid, vice-President of French football federation (FFF) and Lyon mayoral candidate, Jean-Michel Aulas, posing in Lyon on November 4, 2025, and (R) French leftist La France Insoumise (LFI) list candidate for Mayor of Lyon, Anais Belouassa-Cherifi, during her first campaign rally in Lyon, eastern France, on November 6, 2025. Long considered the frontrunner in the polls for the Lyon mayoral election, the former Olympique Lyonnais President said he was "disappointed" on March 15, 2026 to find himself neck and neck with Green Party mayor Grégory Doucet in the first round, ahead of the La France Insoumise (LFI) candidate in third. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)