"It's concrete, tar, and money": in Montpellier, environmentalists oppose the socialist mayor

"This is a council of bad moves, in the middle of summer," laments Jean-Louis Roumégas. The Green MP for Hérault joined the rally organized this Wednesday morning, July 16, by the local Greens group, in front of the Montpellier metropolitan council, to protest the major projects that were to be adopted that same day by the Socialist majority of Mayor and President of the local authority, Michaël Delafosse.

These three projects caused the break , more than a year ago, between the former allies of the 2020 municipal elections. The Green Party and its new partner Après 34 ( the movement of those purged from LFI ) made it the heart of the electoral campaign launched for the conquest of the town hall in spring 2026. First, the CSR incinerator (for "solid recovered fuels") intended for the treatment of waste, "a health bomb, which will pollute