Signes carries less debt per resident than 91% of compared communes
Laurence Menichini has been mayor of Signes since March 27, 2026, elected by the 23 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, Tous Unis Pour Signes won 18 of the 23 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.5% of the votes. Signes is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte Baume.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Var and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Signes’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 3 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, Tous Unis Pour Signes came first with 48.5% and took 18 of the 23 seats; the other lists share the remaining 5. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout above most communes
66% of registered voters in Signes voted on March 15, 2026: higher than in 88% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Var was 59.3%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
Less debt per resident than most
Signes owed €694K at the end of 2025, €219 per resident: lower than in 91% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 16% 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.
- Tous Unis Pour Signes182 community seats
- SIGNES DEMAIN40 community seats
- SIGNES DE QUALITE10 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 Signes 2 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte Baume (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: Laurence Menichini · 23 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, 2026Laurence Menichini
- 2Deputy mayors6 adjoints, elected by the councilEric BerardMuriel PellegrinToni UgolettiClaire MartelMichel LarivièreJoelle Barrier
- 3Signes municipal council23 seats by listTous Unis Pour Signes 18 · SIGNES DEMAIN 4 · SIGNES DE QUALITE 1
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte BaumeSignes holds 2 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 23 members of the Signes municipal council
The mayor and 6 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Laurence Menichini | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Eric Berard | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Muriel Pellegrin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Toni Ugoletti | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claire Martel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michel Larivière | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Joelle Barrier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (23)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Laurence Menichini | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Eric Berard | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Muriel Pellegrin | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Toni Ugoletti | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Claire Martel | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Michel Larivière | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Joelle Barrier | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Stephane Baumier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Joseph Begue | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Farida Benfares | Conseiller municipal | March 27, 2026 |
| Philippe Bonaguidi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| François Cornet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Inès Dewavrin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claire Lasierra | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Samanta Lucas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilles Maignan | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Frederic Ortiz | Conseiller municipal | March 27, 2026 |
| Celine Pioche | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Huguette Quilici-Koffi | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yves Reynard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Caroline Santini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Thierry Vallé | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Freddy Waczecka | 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 Signes, above.
How Signes voted in March 2026
3 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
1,884 votes cast for a list
1,917 of 2,854 registered voters in Signes voted.
24 blank and 9 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
1,845 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
1,884 of 2,853 registered voters in Signes voted.
29 blank and 10 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.
Signes spends €1,763 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
Signes owed €694K at the end of 2025, €219 per resident, lower than in 91% of compared French communes, equal to 16% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,763 | €362 | €219 | €694K |
| 2024 | €1,717 | €425 | €322 | €1M |
| 2023 | €1,565 | €295 | €431 | €1.3M |
| 2022 | €1,603 | €357 | €540 | €1.6M |
| 2021 | €1,761 | €584 | €642 | €1.9M |
| 2020 | €1,268 | €126 | €745 | €2.2M |
| 2019 | €1,550 | €311 | €907 | €2.6M |
| 2018 | €1,659 | €314 | €999 | €2.8M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 2nd 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: Solaize, €80. Highest: La Tranche-sur-Mer, €4,441.
Have a say in Signes
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 Signes 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 Signes’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Signes?
Laurence Menichini, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Signes have?
The Signes municipal council has 23 members, the mayor and 6 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Signes?
Tous Unis Pour Signes, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 48.5% of the votes; it holds 18 of the 23 seats.
What was the turnout in Signes?
66% 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 Signes?
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 Signes have?
€694K at the end of 2025, €219 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Signes part of?
Signes is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Sud Sainte Baume, 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.