Question 13816 — municipalities

Summary

Mr. Nicolas Pacquot draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories and the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, responsible for local authorities and rurality, to the number of municipal councils in France. With approximately 500,000 municipal elected officials and more than 35,000 municipalities in the country, more than half of which (19,000) have fewer than 500 inhabitants, the councils Municipalities in rural communities are often characterized by an abundance of elected volunteers. Some mayors alerted the MP to the difficulty of recruiting candidates for elections and keeping them in place for the duration of a mandate. Indeed, these elected officials are faced with complex technical and human missions due to ever-increasing standards and a rather worrying climate of violence against local elected officials. This is also explained by the transfer of skills to intermunicipalities, thus leading to a reduction in the responsibilities of municipalities. In this context, he wonders if the Government intends to soon consider a reduction in this number of elected officials during the upcoming reform of the institutions and if this could take place before the next municipal elections.

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