municipal candidate Isabelle Perrein at the top of the poster

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A year and a half from municipal electionswe can’t miss it: the candidate Isabelle Perreinnotary at Montpellier is displayed on giant advertising panels, installed since Tuesday, December 17, 2024 on no less than thirty-three key sites. A few days before Christmas, she wishes to “Happy Holidays” to Montpellier residents.

Those who don’t know her or who have never heard of this 54-year-old mother of two young adult children are now in the know. This notary since 2008 has decided to embrace a vigorous political career and will be among the ten, or even fifteen, potential candidates who should run for the seat of city hall in March 2026.

Isabelle Perrein is one of the first to officially reveal herself by surrounding herself with a solid team of women and men who want it. For the past few weeks, without fanfare, she has already been in the field, day and night, far from her study located in the heart of the city, on the Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, where she of course continues to follow her files. Isabelle Perrein spends herself without counting. “And this is only the beginning,” promises one of the campaign managers.

Not from the countryside: the fifty-year-old chose “her” city, the seventh in France, to set off on a unique adventure, after careful consideration. “I have always been interested in public affairs, judging our elected officials on their action, their relationships with residents more than on their political affiliation. I considered for a long time that even if I did not share their bias, the job was done, the skills were there, the general interest defended, in short, politics played its role,” assures Isabelle Perrein.

She draws this observation: “for several years, I have seen this political landscape change, I have seen elected officials whose commitment was no longer that of putting an experience, a professional career at the service of others, at the service of a vision for our territory. Our current elected officials see the exercise of power as a social climb allowing them to live, it is urgent for them to remain in office whatever the values ​​betrayed, including for our mayor-president when it comes to the legislative to ally with LFI, some deputies of which seem to have addictions or are on S file.

She adds that, “the situation no longer suited me, I decided to commit to Montpellier and the people of Montpellier. My ambition is not to have a career in politics, my ambition is our city. I decided to get involved in this campaign very early because it is necessary to have time to interact with all Montpellier residents, in order to take note of their expectations and be able to respond to them, regardless of dogmatism and sectarianism. In summary, it is time to commit to meeting the expectations of Montpellier residents and restoring order at all levels: security (ensure public safety in all neighborhoods more police officers more cameras, no concessions for delinquents, establishment of a curfew if necessary for minors under 15 who do not have to hang around in the street at 2 a.m., and removal of municipal social assistance for repeat offenses), traffic (putting PRMs and pedestrians at the center of our thinking, restoring fluidity in our overtaking, the dogmatism of our mayor-president puts us in danger: the emergency services take 20 minutes longer than the national average to arrive at a place of care), cleanliness, housing : restore order to the social housing allocation process – more than 35,000 pending applications and a great lack of transparency -, theeconomy : no need to go to China and apparently spend more than €260,000 to boost our economy, no need to spend €2,000 for supposedly one night in a hotel. Our territory has centers of excellence on which we must rely.”

Isabelle Perrein states her objective: “I want to return to the fundamentals of local politics, a mayor is a woman or a man whose motivation and program must on the one hand respond to the expectations expressed by the population and on the other share a vision for Montpellier to be a leading city at the national level.”

The candidate for the municipal elections was quick to take action, not at the notary level, but on the ground that she is raking, where she is not expected: she has shown a very noticeable presence, in recent times, notably during nightly maraudings where she comforts the homeless – three of them recently died at the Beaux-Arts, in Figuerolles and Place Molière – and visits to Montpellier humanitarian associations, traders and residents in many neighborhoods of the city, getting closer to essential players in the city.

We recently saw him at the Halles des 4 Saisons in La Mosson-La Paillade, listening to traders who continue to denounce the invasion of fruit and vegetable sellers illegally established in adjoining car parks, where they sell unfair competition. Structured traffic is in place and continues despite regular police checks.

“Find solutions”

Isabelle Perrein explains her presence “by the fact and the need to listen and understand each problem of Montpellier residents to already find solutions and not to waste time, why not once in charge”. She takes the temperature in this chilly period and “I notice that she is overheating, especially at the Halles des 4 Saisons”.

In any case, this go-getter with her share of discretion really believes in it. It is for this reason that she decided to attack hard by wishing happy holidays to the population “in these difficult times, even if during these family festivities, we forget the problems”. A few months before the municipal elections, the notary shows the color.

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