Of France’s 35,048 municipal councils, 712 have British representatives — 757 councilors in total. They make up almost a third of the nearly 2,500 foreign representatives among France’s nearly half a million local councilors. In Poupas, a town of 85 inhabitants in the south of France, three of the 11 councilors are from across the English Channel. “It is a colossal loss,” Poupas Mayor Pascal Guerin said of the Brexit-induced upheaval. Allison Mackie, a 63-year-old from Scotland, is one of two British representatives on the council of Bellegarde-du-Razes, a town of 240 people in southern France.

Source: Taipei Times January 30, 2020 16:06 UTC