Photo: Meria z Geoian · CC BY-SA 4.0Millas carries more debt per resident than 97% of compared communes
Joseph Olive has been mayor of Millas since March 28, 2026, elected by the 27 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, MILLAS, UNE FORCE A VENIR ! won 19 of the 27 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 38.7% of the votes. Millas is part of the Communauté de communes Roussillon-Conflent.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Pyrénées-Orientales and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Millas’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, MILLAS, UNE FORCE A VENIR ! came first with 38.7% and took 19 of the 27 seats; the other lists share the remaining 8. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
66.1% of registered voters in Millas voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 88% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Pyrénées-Orientales was 64%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Millas owed €9.8M at the end of 2025, €2,231 per resident: higher than in 97% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 245% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Little investment
Millas invested €210 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 19% of its spending: lower than in 84% 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.
- MILLAS, UNE FORCE A VENIR !196 community seats
- MILLAS, ENSEMBLE POUR DEMAIN41 community seat
- POUR UN AVENIR DURABLE20 community seats
- AGIR ET S'ENGAGER ENSEMBLE20 community seats
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 Millas 7 seats on the council of the Communauté de communes Roussillon-Conflent (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: Joseph Olive · 27 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 28, 2026Joseph Olive
- 2Deputy mayors8 adjoints, elected by the councilBrigitte BendrellGilles VidalValérie LopezAlain PelissierMarie-Isabelle Surjus-RojasPhilippe RoigMarie-Lou Espelt SacazeRémi Noguera
- 3Millas municipal council27 seats by listMILLAS, UNE FORCE A VENIR ! 19 · MILLAS, ENSEMBLE POUR DEMAIN 4 · POUR UN AVENIR DURABLE 2 · AGIR ET S'ENGAGER ENSEMBLE 2
- 4Communauté de communes Roussillon-ConflentMillas holds 7 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 27 members of the Millas municipal council
The mayor and 8 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Olive | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Brigitte Bendrell | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Vidal | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Valérie Lopez | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Alain Pelissier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie-Isabelle Surjus-Rojas | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Philippe Roig | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie-Lou Espelt Sacaze | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Rémi Noguera | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (27)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Olive | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Brigitte Bendrell | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Gilles Vidal | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Valérie Lopez | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Alain Pelissier | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie-Isabelle Surjus-Rojas | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Philippe Roig | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Marie-Lou Espelt Sacaze | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Rémi Noguera | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Georges Avino | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thérèse Bea | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Régis Bienaimé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yves Chantemargue | Conseiller municipal | March 24, 2026 |
| Antoine Cortes | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nicole Faure | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jacques Garsau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Djamel Hassani | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Barbara Lopez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vanessa Lopez | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Nasarre | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Dominique Nogues | Conseiller municipal | March 24, 2026 |
| Jean-Baptiste Olive | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre Pous | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Cécile Quintus | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Nadine Sales | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Olivier Senyarich | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Rose-Marie Torrent | 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 Millas, above.
How Millas voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
2,158 votes cast for a list
2,205 of 3,254 registered voters in Millas voted.
14 blank and 33 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
2,088 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
2,152 of 3,254 registered voters in Millas voted.
29 blank and 35 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.
Millas spends €1,120 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
Millas owed €9.8M at the end of 2025, €2,231 per resident, higher than in 97% of compared French communes, equal to 245% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,120 | €210 | €2,231 | €9.8M |
| 2024 | €1,085 | €203 | €2,400 | €10.5M |
| 2023 | €1,132 | €238 | €2,582 | €11.2M |
| 2022 | €1,081 | €252 | €2,739 | €11.9M |
| 2021 | €902 | €67 | €2,915 | €12.6M |
| 2020 | €878 | €87 | €2,878 | €12.5M |
| 2019 | €864 | €48 | €3,080 | €13.2M |
| 2018 | €853 | €57 | €3,286 | €14M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 2nd 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: Truchtersheim, €1. Highest: Valras-Plage, €2,960.
Have a say in Millas
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 Millas 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 Millas’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Millas?
Joseph Olive, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Millas have?
The Millas municipal council has 27 members, the mayor and 8 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Millas?
MILLAS, UNE FORCE A VENIR !, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 38.7% of the votes; it holds 19 of the 27 seats.
What was the turnout in Millas?
66.1% 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 Millas?
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 Millas have?
€9.8M at the end of 2025, €2,231 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Millas part of?
Millas is part of the Communauté de communes Roussillon-Conflent, 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.