the socialist Michaël Delafosse alone in opposition to everybody | EUROtoday

From his workplace at metropolis corridor, on January 7, Michaël Delafosse, the mayor (Socialist Party, PS) of Montpellier, prepares to affix a ceremony at hand over voter playing cards. This historical past and geography professor, aged 48 and father of two kids, is wanting ahead to: “I might meet up with some of my former students!” »he declares, placing on his tricolor scarf and including: “I am a mayor who knows his residents. »

The one who reserved the announcement of his candidacy in the regional newspaper Free MiddaySunday January 18, highlights its results: free public transport, the creation of a new tram line in the 7^e metropolis of France at a cost of 440 million euros, social food security, beautification of the city center. He is pleased to have made Montpellier, 522,500 inhabitants, “an ecological benchmark at European level” and of “obtain many delegations who need to be impressed by [sa] metropolis ​​”.

But he knows it: this self-satisfaction is not unanimous. The municipal battle in the Hérault prefecture is far from won for the man who, at a very young age, was already active in the socialist ranks, observing the work of the former councilor Georges Frêche (1977-2004), for whom he assumes a mentoring role. “I had political companionship with Georges Frêche, but I have nothing to do with his political style. »

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