Forbach carries more debt per resident than 90% of compared communes
Alexandre Cassaro has been mayor of Forbach since March 27, 2026, elected by the 35 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ON REUSSIT FORBACH won 28 of the 35 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.7% of the votes. Forbach is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de France.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Moselle and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Forbach’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 6 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, ON REUSSIT FORBACH came first with 53.7% and took 28 of the 35 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
47.2% of registered voters in Forbach voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 85% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Moselle was 51.1%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Forbach owed €33.9M at the end of 2025, €1,586 per resident: higher than in 90% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 136% of a year’s running costs. 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.
- ON REUSSIT FORBACH2812 community seats
- FORBACH PLACE A L'ACTION52 community seats
- FORBACH NOTRE PASSION21 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 Forbach 15 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de France (community seats).
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
4 authorities share the work
The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.
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: Alexandre Cassaro · 35 councilors
The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.
Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.
Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.
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, 2026Alexandre Cassaro
- 2Deputy mayors10 adjoints, elected by the councilGersende KorinekJérémy LauerSabrina HassingerFabrice BotzBedda OusgaPatrick ErbaEvelyne NowakPascal Berthiaux+2 more
- 3Forbach municipal council35 seats by listON REUSSIT FORBACH 28 · FORBACH PLACE A L'ACTION 5 · FORBACH NOTRE PASSION 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de FranceForbach 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 Forbach municipal council
The mayor and 10 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandre Cassaro | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gersende Korinek | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jérémy Lauer | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sabrina Hassinger | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Fabrice Botz | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bedda Ousga | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Patrick Erba | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Evelyne Nowak | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascal Berthiaux | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Josette Krettnich | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bernard Lajus | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (35)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandre Cassaro | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gersende Korinek | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Jérémy Lauer | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Sabrina Hassinger | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Fabrice Botz | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bedda Ousga | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Patrick Erba | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Evelyne Nowak | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Pascal Berthiaux | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Josette Krettnich | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Bernard Lajus | 10ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Robert Ahr | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Ali Ait Ouaarab | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mireille Bison | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Samathy Chea | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Chiché-Tohibo | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Cinqualbre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Diligent | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Tiffany Fusca | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Véronique Gaudron | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marcie Greff | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Abdah Griffete | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Samia Hocine | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kemal Kazanc | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Martine Kirchstetter | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Grégoire Koehl | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Malika Kreb | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Renardo Michel Lorier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mike Luxembourger | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julien Machacek | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Anne-Rose Philipps | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claudine Rumpler | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sandrine Schissler | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Romain Stephani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Elisabeth Wagner | 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 Forbach, above.
How Forbach voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
6,148 votes cast for a list
6,315 of 13,051 registered voters in Forbach voted.
91 blank and 76 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
5,989 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
6,153 of 13,046 registered voters in Forbach voted.
92 blank and 72 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.
Forbach spends €1,647 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
Forbach owed €33.9M at the end of 2025, €1,586 per resident, higher than in 90% of compared French communes, equal to 136% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,647 | €480 | €1,586 | €33.9M |
| 2024 | €1,456 | €364 | €1,593 | €34.1M |
| 2023 | €1,343 | €293 | €1,596 | €34.8M |
| 2022 | €1,276 | €251 | €1,589 | €34.8M |
| 2021 | €1,254 | €252 | €1,587 | €34.8M |
| 2020 | €1,153 | €165 | €1,606 | €35.1M |
| 2019 | €1,315 | €282 | €1,733 | €38.1M |
| 2018 | €1,212 | €189 | €1,681 | €37M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 8th highest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Bouguenais, €106. Highest: Sceaux, €2,485.
Have a say in Forbach
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 Forbach 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 Forbach’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Forbach?
Alexandre Cassaro, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Forbach have?
The Forbach municipal council has 35 members, the mayor and 10 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Forbach?
ON REUSSIT FORBACH, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.7% of the votes; it holds 28 of the 35 seats.
What was the turnout in Forbach?
47.2% 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 Forbach?
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 Forbach have?
€33.9M at the end of 2025, €1,586 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Forbach part of?
Forbach is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de Forbach Porte de France, 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.