It is a motion “more symbolic than prohibitive”. The municipal council of Toulouges, a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales, voted unanimously against the project to establish a McDonald’s restaurant in the commune.
Elected officials note that there are already four stores of the same brand within a seven-minute radius, particularly in Perpignan. “It seems necessary to us to remember that the department has one of the highest rates of fast food per capita in the country,” specifies the mayor, Nicolas Barthe (DIV), at Roussillon Week.
The municipal council undertakes to use all useful and necessary legal means to justify the refusal to establish the fast food brand in its territory. “We were elected to defend policies that promote organic products, short circuits, and waste reduction,” the mayor said during the municipal council. We are committed to a responsible approach and this philosophy does not fit, in our opinion, with this project. »