Ecology in Small Steps by Pierre Hurmick at Bordeaux City Hall

At the capuchin market, the mayor of Bordeaux (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, EELV) has his own habits. Every Sunday for almost twenty-five years, she loved shopping and after being elected in 2020, she did not want to change her weekly ritual; He likes to call the market his own “permanence” of the chosen ones. Here he greets, listens, changes. More reserved than his predecessor Alain Juppe, accustomed to selfies and always a local figure, Pierre Hurmick, he circulates without attracting crowds.

“This is the next world” Ironically, the city councilor and his team. Pierre Hurmik will show himself alone on January 14 in the alleys of the Capuchins, without his wife, who prefers to stay in the shadows. Also far from the figure of Isabelle Juppe, whose face everyone knew and hailed for her charisma. “I don’t have the same personality as Alain Juppe and times have changed” Specifies the selected.

He prefers it “address” Those who are not necessarily of his political allegiance, but who remain to be convinced. Those who signaled that in July 2020 the city had been governed by the right for seventy-three years – Jacques Chaban-Delmass, Alain Juppe, Hugo Martin and Nicolas Florian. “The worst enemies are lazy conservatives, those who think we can go on as before. I was elected with the concept “the world is changing, let’s change Bordeaux”” Pierre Hurmik explains.

However, change in the city is hard to grasp at the moment. Many criticize his first mayor for the lack of major projects in the Gironde capital. On the contrary, here again is the madness of Alain Juppe, who wanted to make Bordeaux. “Millionaire City” in the population. Bordeaux still has the image of the former premier, renovated docks, tram, Matmut Atlantique stadium. But Pierre Hurmick has a completely different vision: “I am more attached to urbanity than to city planning. How do we live together in Bordeaux, how do we manage to create a city that is less specific, less predatory towards ecosystems, protecting the last spaces of nature. »

“Not necessarily a global base”

his great pride “I was supposed to go to the UN platform on July 22, 2022. The city of Bordeaux was chosen at our request as the capital of the World Forum of Social and Solidarity Economy, because we gave a high priority to the creation of companies in this field.

The mayor is taking Bordeaux’s frugal building label even further, now requiring developers to meet more virtuous specifications for their structures. A model hailed for winning the housing prize it received in Paris in December 2022 at the Congress of Low Carbon Cities. “It is not spectacular, but it means that what is done in Bordeaux is recognized elsewhere. The outlook on Bordeaux is changing », He congratulates himself.