It has already been a year since the association of rural mayors of Calvados raised the subject ofa drop in the number of municipal councilors near the prefect of Calvados smiles Michel Cruchon. The mayor of Cléville and vice-president of the association can therefore only welcome the examination this Wednesday by the senators of a bill to this effect.
Management with already small teams
Michel Cruchon, the mayor of Cléville, a town of 395 inhabitants in the Pays d’Auge region, explains already managing with a tight team “with either one or two deputies and a municipal councilor who are really involved” .**
The hassle of putting together lists
Lower the number of municipal councilors from 11 to 9 (with a tolerance of 7) for municipalities with less than 500 inhabitants would make life easier for candidates in municipal elections explains Michel Cruchon. “We manage to motivate a certain group of candidates, but on the list we are still missing two or three people so we are going to complete with people who are not going to be involved in an entire mandate“.**
In 2026, Michel Cruchon will not run for a third term but he has already anticipated and “rebuild a team that will take over“.
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