CHRONICLE – Short sentences and behind the scenes of the political week, by Carl Meeus.
The future of my country lives in me daily
Michaël Delafosse, mayor of Montpellier
In the Socialist Party, it is not just Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen, or Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie region, to oppose Olivier Faure and challenge his line of forced union with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. . A socialist activist since he was 16 – he is now 46 – the mayor of Montpellier Michael Delafosse is also far from sharing the strategy of the first secretary. Better, according to Christine Ducros and François Delétraz, the two journalists of Figaro and Figaro Magazine who devote a biography to him (The Atypical Mayor of Montpellier, Editions du Rocher), “He hates Olivier Faure and refuses this moribund left, hand and foot bound by a Nupes-style ‘dupes’ agreement'”.
Beyond the merits, the dispute dates back to the municipal elections of 2020. Michaël Delafosse tries his luck, in the midst of 13 other candidates including the outgoing mayor Philippe Saurel and Mohed Altrad, the entrepreneur, boss of the city’s rugby club . Little known, credited with 7% of…
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