regardless of the imposed parity, greater than two thirds of mayors will likely be males | EUROtoday

The 2026 municipal elections have been to be the primary totally equal. But the wager of feminization of city halls has a very good likelihood of being misplaced.

More than three quarters of the candidate lists in the course of the poll on March 15 and 22 will, actually, be led by a person, in accordance with the evaluation carried out by the Les Décoders service of the purposes made public, Saturday February 28, by the Ministry of the Interior.

However, a reform handed in 2025 imposes for the primary time strict parity in all French municipalities (excluding Polynesia). Its defenders argued that it will make it attainable to feminize the municipal councils of small municipalities (lower than 1,000 inhabitants), the place solely 37% of municipal councilors are at present ladies, in comparison with nearly 48% in municipalities with greater than 1,000 inhabitants, the place parity has already been required since 2014.

Two sensible pitfalls

If the regulation now imposes a strict alternation between women and men in all lists of candidates – together with within the second spherical the place the lists can merge –, two sensible pitfalls will stop this from leading to a “50-50” distribution of the positions of mayors and municipal councilors.

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