Editing Cayenne (section)

==Administration==
[[File:Cantons de Cayenne.png|thumb|The commune of Cayenne with its former [[Cantons of the Guyane department|cantons]] in the early 2010s. <small>(note: the cantons were abolished in 2015)</small>]]

Cayenne is a [[Communes of France|commune]] of the French Republic and as such, administered by a mayor and a municipal council. The current mayor is Sandra Trochimara, who was 1st deputy mayor under the former mayor [[Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth]], and succeeded her as mayor of Cayenne in October 2020 after Phinéra-Horth won the local [[2020 French Senate election|Senate race]] the month before (under French law, members of the [[Senate (France)|French Senate]] cannot exercise the mandate of mayor). Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth, a former member of the [[Guianese Socialist Party]], daughter of a former president of the [[General Council of French Guiana]], Stéphan Phinéra-Horth, from the Guianese Socialist Party, who governed the department of French Guiana from 1994 to 1998, was supported by various left-wing parties and had been mayor of Cayenne since 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sénatoriales : Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth devient la 1ère femme sénatrice de la Guyane |url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guyane/ouest-guyanais/guyane/senatoriales-marie-laure-phinera-horth-devient-la-1ere-femme-senatrice-de-la-guyane-875146.html |access-date=2022-04-04 |website=Guyane la 1ère |date=27 September 2020 |language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mme Marie-Laure Phinera-Horth, sénatrice de la Guyane (Guyane) - Sénat |url=https://www.senat.fr/senateur/phinera_horth_marie_laure20146d.html |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=www.senat.fr}}</ref>

[[File:MairiedeCayenne.JPG|thumb|Town hall]]

As in the rest of France, the small size of the commune of Cayenne does not cover the entire urban area of Cayenne. This has led to the creation of an [[Intercommunality|intercommunal authority]] which groups Cayenne and five suburban communes: the [[communauté d'agglomération du Centre Littoral]]. The current president of the intercommunal authority of Centre Littoral since November 2020 has been Serge Smock, mayor of [[Matoury]], who ran on a centrist platform affiliated with [[Emmanuel Macron]]'s [[La République en marche|LREM]] party and defeated Sandra Trochimara, successor of Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth as mayor of Cayenne, who was also trying to succeed her as president of the intercommunal authority with the support of an array of Left-wing parties. It is the first time since 2001 that the intercommunal authority is not presided by the mayor of Cayenne.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guyane/serge-smock-elu-president-de-la-communaute-d-agglomeration-du-centre-littoral-890190.html |title=Serge Smock élu président de la communauté d'agglomération du centre littoral  |author=Guyane La Première |date=6 November 2020 |access-date=2022-04-02}}</ref> Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horthwas was president of the intercommunal authority of Centre Littoral from 2014 to 2020, and did not run for reelection due to her election to the French Senate in September 2020.

The intercommunal authority of Centre Littoral, which levies its own taxes, is in charge of refuse collection, water supply and sewage treatment, urban planning, and public transport for the {{cvt|5,087|km2}} of Cayenne and its suburbs.

Until 2015, the commune of Cayenne was divided into six [[Cantons of the Guyane department|cantons]], but these were abolished in 2015 when the department and the region of French Guiana were abolished and replaced by the French Guiana Territorial Collectivity.