Jean-Louis Roumégas (born 6 June 1962) is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly representing the 1st district of Hérault from 2012 to 2017.^[1] He is a member of the Ecologists group.^[2]

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (February 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Jean-Louis Roumégas]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fr|Jean-Louis Roumégas}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Preceded by, Succeeded by ...

Jean-Louis Roumégas
Member of the National Assembly for Hérault's 1st constituency
In office 20 June 2012 – 20 June 2017
Preceded by	Jacques Domergue
Succeeded by	Patricia Mirallès
Personal details
Born	(1962-06-06) 6 June 1962 (age 61) Algiers, Algeria
Political party	Europe Ecology – The Greens
Alma mater	Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3

Close

During his political career Roumégas has been the spokesman of Europe Ecoligie les Verts (EELV) from 2008 to 2011. He has also been part of the mayor–council government system of Montpellier from 2001 to 2011. In June 2012 Roumégas won 50.1% of the popular vote and he became member of the National Assembly of France.

In the 2017 election he was defeated in the first round, gaining only 10.7% of the vote.

Jean-Louis Roumégas was born in Algiers, Algeria in 1962. He was raised in Montpellier and then in Pyrénées-Orientales.

Roumégas enrolled at the Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3, where he majored in philosophy and Literature. Some years later he started teaching at the same university. Now he is an active member of different organizations of childhood's rights.

His first steps in politic were aimed at defending the human rights in Morocco, as an activist of the "House of the Third World" an organization who helps political prisoners in that country.

In 1992, he became member of the French Ecologist Movement. Then in 2001 he was elected counselor of ecological development. In 2012, during the politic campaigns he was elected deputy in the National Assembly, representing the 1th^{[clarification needed]} district of Montpellier city. Since his arrive to the assembly Roumégas has worked in several ecological and economic programs contributing to the regional development in Languedoc-Roussillon. He is spokesperson for the Greens and municipal councillor in Montpellier.

In 2009, he was selected to be The Greens-Europe Écologie's candidate in Languedoc-Roussillon for the 2010 regional elections.^[3]