Vice-president of Sète agglopôle delegate for agriculture and viticulture, municipal councilor of Villeveyrac, Michel Garcia is running under the banner of the Republicans and the candidacy of Valérie Pécresse in the presidential election.
Michel Garcia will celebrate his 49th birthday tomorrow and this date coincides with his candidacy for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 in the 4e constituency of Hérault under the banner of the Republicans. Laure Capelli, elected since 2008, deputy mayor of Saint-Gély-du-Fesc in charge of community life and festivities and community adviser within the community of communes of Grand Pic-Saint-Loup, listed LR, will be his deputy. . An urban for a rural.
This is a broader political commitment for the municipal councilor of Villeveyrac since 2014 and vice-president of Sète agglopôle Méditerranée in charge of agriculture, viticulture and the management of natural, agricultural and lagoon areas, president of the Local Water Committee and Local Natura 2000 Committee; “a real adventure… to give back to this land all the happiness it has always brought me” he will say on Tuesday when he announces his candidacy for the abbey of Valmagne. A place chosen on purpose: “It is not the headquarters of a political party but the abbey of Villeveyrac, a place steeped in history”. At his side, supporters: the winegrower Céline Michelon, assistant to agriculture in Villeveyrac; Virginie Rage-Andrieu and Florence Taillade, respectively LR candidates in the 9e and the 6e constituency of Hérault.
Fight bureaucracy
Hailing from a family of farmers who taught him “the value of work and responsibility, patience and tenacity”, Michel Garcia retraced his career within the Young Farmers of the Hérault, at the permanent assembly of the Chambers of Agriculture as national manager of the local producers’ markets and of the Bienvenu à la ferme network. He is also the business manager of Verger de Thau (local fruit juices) on an 80-hectare family farm. “Participating in the national debate, making the voice of our territory heard, this is what drives me and leads me to present myself” he said in particular.
“Here, nature and tourism are linked, agriculture and the environment too. We must continue to work together. I will work to be the link between everyone.” His enemy ? “Paperwork, bureaucracy… I will be concerned about administrative simplification to free each profession from the chains of standards and regulations… National decisions need to be optimized locally.”
Rather Jacques Chirac than de Gaulle
His challenge? Meet the inhabitants, elected officials and socio-professionals of the 99 municipalities of this 4e riding “huge and disparate” which extends from the foothills of the Cévennes to the Hérault valley, from the Larzac plateau to the Thau basin without forgetting the east of Montpellier. His roadmap will be that of the Republicans and the departmental support committee of candidate Valérie Pécresse. “I have always had right-wing ideas. My political model is not de Gaulle but Jacques Chirac who belonged to a social right and who was aware that it was necessary to produce wealth in order to be able to share it. The right of the economy, rights, duties, these are my values.”
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