In Kourou, the council took a second round
Michaël Rimane has been mayor of Kourou since March 27, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, AVENIR KOUROUCIEN won 24 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 34.9% of the votes. Kourou is part of the Communauté de communes des Savanes.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the France median is the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade); none in this département is compared.
What stands out about Kourou’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 7 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, AVENIR KOUROUCIEN came first with 34.9% and took 24 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 11. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51% of registered voters in Kourou voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 75% of compared French communes (France median 57.4%). 2026 elections ↓
Results as the Interior ministry published them; accounts from the DGFiP via OFGL. Nothing here is graded.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- AVENIR KOUROUCIEN2411 community seats
- VIVRE KOUROU ENSEMBLE52 community seats
- OSONS POUR KOUROU31 community seat
- REPARER KOUROU ET AVANCER31 community seat
As elected in the second round, March 22, 2026.
The list that comes first gets half the seats; the rest are shared in proportion among the lists with 5% or more, the winner included. So the winning list always has a majority. The same vote gave Kourou 15 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes des Savanes (community seats).
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
3 authorities share the work
In French Guiana one territorial authority does the work of both the département and the région.
Births, marriages and deaths, the electoral roll, nursery and primary schools, local roads, planning permission, the municipal police, and what else the council takes on.
Mayor: Michaël Rimane · 35 councilors
The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.
Everything the département and the région do elsewhere: social aid, collèges, lycées, roads, regional transport and the economy.
Who to ask
The usual split of powers (service-public.fr); an intercommunality’s exact remit varies, so check its website for waste, water and buses.
Membership: COG 2026 (INSEE); intercommunality type: BANATIC, January 2025. What each tier does: service-public.fr.
From the mayor to the intercommunality
The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.
- 1Mayorsince March 27, 2026Michaël Rimane
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilClaudine RinguetEnrico BerthierKeila de PaivaAlbert Frank SamuelsStelly Fernand LaurencinBenjamin ZulemaroMarie-France BangoFrédéric Lladeres+2 more
- 3Kourou municipal council35 seats by listAVENIR KOUROUCIEN 24 · VIVRE KOUROU ENSEMBLE 5 · OSONS POUR KOUROU 3 · REPARER KOUROU ET AVANCER 3
- 4Communauté de communes des SavanesKourou holds 15 seatsCommunity councilors are drawn from the council lists in the same vote.
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
The 35 members of the Kourou municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Michaël Rimane | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claudine Ringuet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Enrico Berthier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Keila de Paiva | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Albert Frank Samuels | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stelly Fernand Laurencin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benjamin Zulemaro | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-France Bango | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédéric Lladeres | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mathilde Lubin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Dufail | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Michaël Rimane | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claudine Ringuet | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Enrico Berthier | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Keila de Paiva | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Albert Frank Samuels | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stelly Fernand Laurencin | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Benjamin Zulemaro | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Marie-France Bango | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Frédéric Lladeres | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mathilde Lubin | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gilles Dufail | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jean-Etienne Antoinette | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Micheline Antoinette | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Bernard Birebent | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Marc Blaizot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Renata Bragance | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ruanny Cantao Dias | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Aubéric Charles | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joseph Dorcena | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Salim Fouhane | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Françoise Frédoc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Inès Lindor | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Louis | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marlène Mabie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Karine Monnera | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Juliette Montabord | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Chrsitelle Pansa | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Papaix | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Davy Rimane | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Ringuet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laura Ringuet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Laurent Salinier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mafait Seide | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Myriam Senes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Paul Tony | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
Names and offices as the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) published them on August 11, 2026, written as it writes them. Public role only. Later resignations and replacements aren’t shown.
The council: same source as Who represents Kourou, above.
How Kourou voted in March 2026
7 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
6,776 votes cast for a list
6,932 of 11,939 registered voters in Kourou voted.
89 blank and 67 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,867 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
6,083 of 11,939 registered voters in Kourou voted.
112 blank and 104 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026
Shares are of the votes cast for a list, leaving out blank and spoilt ballots. Lists in vote order; the colors only tell the lists apart.
2026 elections: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
Kourou spends €2,101 per resident a year
The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.
Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes
Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025
Kourou owed €16.2M at the end of 2025, €658 per resident, lower than in 58% of compared French communes, equal to 38% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,101 | €358 | €658 | €16.2M |
| 2024 | €2,259 | €525 | €700 | €17.4M |
| 2023 | €1,907 | €180 | €749 | €18.8M |
| 2022 | €1,792 | €245 | €773 | €19.4M |
| 2021 | €1,888 | €269 | €782 | €19.7M |
| 2020 | €1,974 | €428 | €773 | €20M |
| 2019 | €2,209 | €463 | €592 | €15.8M |
| 2018 | €1,828 | €326 | €644 | €17M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 16th lowest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Rodez, €33. Highest: Vichy, €4,044.
Have a say in Kourou
French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.
service-public.fr ↗See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.
service-public.fr ↗Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.
service-public.fr ↗Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of Kourou in the public services directory.
lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.
interieur.gouv.fr ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Mayors and councilors. From the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) as published on August 11, 2026: name, office and start dates, nothing else. The register counts a mayor as a councilor too; the page counts each person once. It isn’t a live roll: resignations and replacements after that date aren’t shown, and no party is inferred for any official.
- How the council is elected. Since March 2026 every commune elects its council from lists (a 2025 law extended list voting to communes under 1,000). A list with more than half the votes in the first round wins; otherwise lists with 10% or more can go on to a second round, where the list ahead wins. It gets half the seats, and the rest are shared in proportion among lists with 5% or more. The council then elects the mayor and the deputy mayors.
- The label beside a list. The political nuance the prefecture gave the list for the ministry’s results (Divers droite, Union de la gauche…), shown as published. It isn’t the list’s own description; many lists, most in small communes, have none.
- The commune’s money. OFGL’s consolidated accounts from the DGFiP, 2018 to 2025; 2025 is provisional. Spending and investment leave out loan repayments; running costs are part of spending. Debt is what was owed at the end of the year.
- Per resident. Divided by the DGFiP’s population for that year (population totale, which counts some people, such as boarding students, in two communes), so it can differ from the census figure elsewhere on the site.
- The medians. Beside the town’s figure, the median of compared communes in its département and in France (those with an overall grade). A commune’s spending follows its size and its role: one that runs a pool or a theater for the villages around it spends more per resident.
Questions about Kourou’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Kourou?
Michaël Rimane, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Kourou have?
The Kourou municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Kourou?
AVENIR KOUROUCIEN, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 34.9% of the votes; it holds 24 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Kourou?
51% of registered voters voted in the first round on March 15, 2026; the median of compared French communes was 57.4%.
When are the next municipal elections in Kourou?
Councils are elected for six years, so the next general municipal elections are due in March 2032. A council can be re-elected sooner if it loses too many members.
How much debt does Kourou have?
€16.2M at the end of 2025, €658 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Kourou part of?
Kourou is part of the Communauté de communes des Savanes, which runs the services its communes share.
Sources: Interior ministry RNE, August 11, 2026 · Interior ministry, municipal results 2026 · OFGL consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 · INSEE COG 2026 and BANATIC (January 2025) for the intercommunality. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.