Part of the audience at the preliminary meeting
I was in Quillan (Aude) earlier this week, for a meeting on the future of our mountains. Following a major reorganisation, the new region of Occitanie (articulated around the two metropoles of Toulouse and Montpellier) has decided to create a Mountain Parliament.
The idea is to give stakeholders a voice. According to Carole Delga, the region’s president: “The aim is to encourage communication and the emergence of new ideas so that regional policies can be adapted to the needs of the whole population.”
And mountains are a significant part of the new region:
- 55% of the surface area
- 20% of the population, ie 1.13 million inhabitants
- 47% of the communes, ie 2153 in total
