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The authorities has promised: the decentralization invoice introduced by Sébastien Lecornu – on which discussions are resuming – won’t give rise to a territorial large bang. “I don’t believe in great evenings because the tomorrows are pale early mornings”, declared Françoise Gatel within the Senate on November 4, 2025. The Minister of Territorial Planning and Decentralization then identified the most recent main territorial reforms designed, in accordance with her, to “uniform manner” And “measuring the effectiveness of public action” from “thresholds and number of inhabitants”. In its sights: the creation of enormous areas and the reform of the intercommunal map.

On November 14, 2025, Sébastien Lecornu additionally excluded a “big night” decentralization and, above all, a questioning of the territorial millefeuille. “I do not believe in the demagoguery which would consist of saying that we must eliminate a stratum of communityhe said at the close of the Conference of the Departments of France. We must not give in to all the demagoguery which would suggest that, by removing something, we would make immediate savings. » Despite these guarantees given by Matignon, caution remains required in the local sphere, particularly within the Senate, often referred to as the “Chamber of Communities”.

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