Bringing together more than 700 guests to the Gradilis estate, in Mudaison, the evening of vows 2025 of the agglomeration of the Pays de l’Or, this Thursday, January 23, was placed under the sign of agriculture. A moment of conviviality and tributes, between inspired assessments and ambitious perspectives.
How to stay in tradition without becoming boring? More than 700 guests at the Agglomeration Evening of the Pays de l’Or shared an answer this Thursday, January 23, in Mudaison, in the Gradilis estate, the world leader in varietal creation of the apple.
Because after the dune at the Grande-Motte two years ago and the Moto-Park in the Mauguio-Fréjorgues area in 2024, the Agglo chose to present its 2025 wishes on the sequence “Agriculture, our nature”. The right timing on the eve of elections in the rooms of France.
“Sovereignty”, “Cooperation” and “Thank you”
While President Stéphan Rossignol and the elected officials salute each of the guests, the large gradilis room fills up, to the rhythm of elegant dancers on stilts and the string quartet of the Montpellier Orchestra led by the cellist Janice Renaud.
After a mini-film promoting the territory and its actors in the evening theme, the mayor of the Grande-Motte passes to the microphone. He is surrounded in particular by elected officials from the eight municipalities of the Pays de l’Or (Candillargues, La Grande-Motte, Lansargues, Mauguio-Carnon, Mudaison, Palavas-les-Flots, Saint-Aunès and Valergues), with the exception of the mayor De Candillargues, Anthony Melin, seized.
Stéphan Rossignol, always inspired but here voluntarily more concise, declines assets and achievements on agricultural mode according to three keywords: “Sovereignty”, “Cooperation” et “merci”.
-“Identity and territorial sovereignty, he continues, For a territory where the useful agricultural surface represents almost 50 %, with 197 farms and 4,552 companies “in this sector.” This striking force is the happy cohabitation of humans and nature, does not displease ideologues of the ecology of decrease. “
Food and energy sovereignties are also detailed.
“A heritage that requires us”
On cooperation, the mayor Grand-Mottois underlines: “All the partners who make up this postcard can count on the Gold Pays to meet the common challenges and meet the issues that go beyond our respective territories”leaning the operations implemented, without failing to overflow on youth and accommodation.
Half an hour has already spun when President Rossignol comes to “thank you”. “Thank you to all of our partners for competing in making the treasures of our territory shine, he launches to finish. Thank you to our farmers who invest the beauty of the world and its landscapes, craftsmen of our identity and an inheritance that requires us. “
“Serene, peaceful dialogues”
After a new “Address supported” To the mayors and vice-presidents of the Pays de l’Or, President Stéphan Rossignol invited to “Measure this chance of having serene, peaceful dialogues at the service of the general interest” within the agglo.
He also expressed “collectively a moved thought” For Jean-Louis Bouscarain, mayor of Valergues who died on the night of January 4 to 5, 2023. “And we share the sadness of the relatives of Bertrand Coisne, elected municipal official of Mauguio and community councilor, concerned with the progress of the territory in a constructive debate, disappeared this Tuesday, January 14.”
