You don’t know something about “intercos”? What you want to find out about this main and little-known municipal difficulty | EUROtoday

One election can disguise one other… and even two.

The municipal elections on Sunday March 15 and 22 will represent the antechamber of the senatorial elections in September 2026, because the senators are primarily elected by municipal councilors. But this poll will even make it attainable to decide on neighborhood advisors, that’s to say the elected officers who sit in intermunicipalities, or “intercos” – which take the shape, relying on the placement, of communities of municipalities, agglomeration communities, city communities or metropolises.

It issues “that our fellow citizens understand this double-issue election” as a result of “a large part of the skills in our territories are exercised by intermunicipalities”insisted Anne Terlez, vice-president of the Seine-Eure Agglomeration and the Intercommunalités de France affiliation, throughout a press convention on the finish of January in Paris.

Despite intensive powers, the function and functioning of those groupings of municipalities stay obscure for a lot of voters, not essentially helped by the campaigns. “The candidates fear weakening belief in the capacity for action of mayors” And of “harm mobilization” in municipal elections, political scientists Rémi Lefebvre and Sébastien Vignon estimated in 2020.

You have 35.04% of this text left to learn. The relaxation is reserved for subscribers.