Maripasoula carries less debt per resident than 94% of compared communes
Jonathan Abienso has been mayor of Maripasoula since March 28, 2026, elected by the 28 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, MAINTENANT AGISSONS POUR L'AVENIR won 23 of the 29 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 57% of the votes. Maripasoula is part of the Communauté de communes de l'Ouest Guyanais.
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 Maripasoula’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, MAINTENANT AGISSONS POUR L'AVENIR came first with 57% and took 23 of the 29 seats; the other lists share the remaining 6. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
63.5% of registered voters in Maripasoula voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 79% of compared French communes (France median 57.4%). 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Maripasoula owed €1.2M at the end of 2025, €139 per resident: lower than in 94% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 9% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Maripasoula invested €924 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 38% of its spending: higher than in 92% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. The commune’s money ↓
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.
- MAINTENANT AGISSONS POUR L'AVENIR233 community seats
- Ensemble poursuivons le developpement61 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 Maripasoula 4 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes de l'Ouest Guyanais (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: Jonathan Abienso · 28 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 28, 2026Jonathan Abienso
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilOrnica ApayacaRicardo FofiSindie BallaJean Boscou AgesilasSophie BaluelPélé KidoVanessa BarcarelGermain Doudou+1 more
- 3Maripasoula municipal council29 seats by listMAINTENANT AGISSONS POUR L'AVENIR 23 · Ensemble poursuivons le developpement 6
- 4Communauté de communes de l'Ouest GuyanaisMaripasoula holds 4 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 28 members of the Maripasoula municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Abienso | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Ornica Apayaca | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Ricardo Fofi | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sindie Balla | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Boscou Agesilas | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sophie Baluel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pélé Kido | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Vanessa Barcarel | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Germain Doudou | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Ingrid Joachim | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (28)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Abienso | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Ornica Apayaca | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Ricardo Fofi | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sindie Balla | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Boscou Agesilas | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sophie Baluel | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Pélé Kido | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Vanessa Barcarel | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Germain Doudou | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Ingrid Joachim | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Sylviana Agesilas | Conseiller municipal | March 28, 2026 |
| Madeleine Akatia | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Inina Aloike | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Powell Assabal | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joseph Atia | Conseiller municipal | March 28, 2026 |
| Chrétien Balla | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Daniel Bernadin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Findhet Nestor Bernardin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lydina Myléna Dada | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Effelina Fati | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rudy Fofi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valérie Linguet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Guillaume Longin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuel Octavie | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dayna Pierre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sarah Pissi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Lama Topo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Sophie Yona | 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 Maripasoula, above.
How Maripasoula voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,796 votes cast for a list
1,824 of 2,669 registered voters in Maripasoula voted.
12 blank and 16 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,686 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,696 of 2,669 registered voters in Maripasoula voted.
4 blank and 6 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.
Maripasoula spends €2,424 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
Maripasoula owed €1.2M at the end of 2025, €139 per resident, lower than in 94% of compared French communes, equal to 9% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €2,424 | €924 | €139 | €1.2M |
| 2024 | €2,126 | €694 | €151 | €1.4M |
| 2023 | €1,996 | €596 | €164 | €1.6M |
| 2022 | €1,319 | €276 | €153 | €1.8M |
| 2021 | €1,411 | €428 | €170 | €2.1M |
| 2020 | €1,179 | €436 | €170 | €2.3M |
| 2019 | €1,169 | €426 | €192 | €2.5M |
| 2018 | €1,150 | €495 | €225 | €2.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 6th 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: Bondues, €1. Highest: Redon, €2,301.
Have a say in Maripasoula
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 Maripasoula 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 Maripasoula’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Maripasoula?
Jonathan Abienso, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Maripasoula have?
The Maripasoula municipal council has 28 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Maripasoula?
MAINTENANT AGISSONS POUR L'AVENIR, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 57% of the votes; it holds 23 of the 29 seats.
What was the turnout in Maripasoula?
63.5% 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 Maripasoula?
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 Maripasoula have?
€1.2M at the end of 2025, €139 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Maripasoula part of?
Maripasoula is part of the Communauté de communes de l'Ouest Guyanais, 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.