2025 - Challenges in Perpignan: The ZFE Implementation Faces Significant Social Impact Issues

2025 - Challenges in Perpignan: The ZFE Implementation Faces Significant Social Impact Issues

Air pollution in France leads to around 40,000 deaths and numerous asthma cases, prompting the government to implement low-emission zones (LEZ) in urban areas. Paris and Lyon have banned certain vehicles, but proposals to reconsider these zones are underway. In Perpignan, the LEZ’s start date has been delayed to 2026 due to local concerns over economic impacts, particularly for low-income residents. Currently, only older vehicles are affected, w…

Created in 2019 to progressively limit the access of older and polluting vehicles to large cities, the low-emission zones (LFEs), removed on Wednesday, in committee at the National Assembly, met with a chaotic setting up and the specter of a "social bomb" to defuse.

Less than a year before the municipal elections, an anti-ZFE front is active. In Parliament, legislative initiatives are rampant. For a long time at the outposts, the National Rally is no longer alone in manoeuvring. MPs from the common base have decided to join in. To the great dam of the government, which, in addition to managing the chaotic deployment of these areas, is looking for the ferments of a new social crisis.