Overview
- Catherine Trautmann won the Eurométropole de Strasbourg presidency with 80 of 107 votes as the sole candidate.
- Her pact with LR mayors Thibaud Philipps and Catherine Graef-Eckert secures a working majority for a body that serves 517,000 residents across 33 communes.
- Philipps will oversee urbanism, while Graef-Eckert takes international outreach and the traffic plan as first vice-presidents.
- Trautmann said she wants to handle public transport herself, and she has not clarified whether she will keep both the mayor’s office and the métropole presidency.
- The three leaders previously teamed up to block the former Green majority’s northern tram extension, signaling transport and planning choices will be early tests of their promise to depoliticize local decisions.