The elected official, former MEP, general and regional councilor, had defended the importance of environmental themes in the early 1980s.
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The commune of Mèze (Hérault) announced on its site Internet , Saturday, May 28, the death of the former mayor of the town, Yves Pietrasanta, at the age of 83. Pioneer of political ecology in France, Yves Pietrasanta was notably co -founder of the Génération Écology party in 1990 – with Brice Lalonde, Noël Mamère, Corinne Lepage and Jean -Louis Borloo – before being appointed President of the Greens Scientific Council in 1998 .
Former MEP (1999-2003), former candidate for the 2012 presidential election on behalf of the Ecology Generation (before a withdrawal for the benefit of François Hollande), Yves Pietrasanta mainly occupied many local elective mandates. Mèze municipal councilor in 1971, he was elected general councilor of Hérault the following year and until 2001, then regional advisor from 1986 until 2015 – Yves Pietrasanta will occupy the Vice -Presidency in these last two communities, especially in charge of the environment. His alliance with George Frèche at the Languedoc-Roussillon Regional Council earned him criticism from the environmental camp.
“Everyone feels that the big political question will be how to reconcile the necessary ecological mutation of our economies with a humanist policy, respectful of social justice and the well-being of the most modest”, wrote Yves Pietrasanta in a platform In the world, in September 2011, before considering “that in this fundamental question, the major parties provide no real answer and lock themselves in managers, illegible for our fellow citizens, who let themselves be tempted by every day by anxiety, security withdrawal “.
“I want to salute the memory of Yves Pietrasanta, pioneer of political ecology, former mayor of Mèze, elected to the region alongside Georges Freche. My condolences to his family and loved ones,” wrote the Mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse, on Twitter on Saturday morning . “Thoughts of our friends from Mèze and those who have had the chance to campaign with him,” published, on The same network, the Ecology Generation Party , illustrating the tribute message by a photo of Delphine Bato, current national coordinator of the movement, with Yves Pietrasanta.
In addition to his elected representatives, Yves Pietrasanta, engineer, has occupied several institutional mandates, in particular the presidency of the former public establishment, the National Agency for the Recovery and Elimination of Waste (ANRED), Then from the French Environment Institute (Ifen). He was also a member of the High Environment Committee, an organ attached to Matignon in the 1980s.