Well, public transport is under the control of a specific administrative body, the STIF, where some of the earlier régions and département are represented, but which doesn't actually finance all infrastructure building nor operates the buses itself. To build a tramway line agreement with financing must be reached with the concerned communes, départements, région, the French State, the operator (RATP, SNCF, and a few others), and also possibly if applicable the Communauté de communes.

Oh, I hadn't told you about the Communautés de communes ? In the rest of France this kind of administrative unit unites (in a relatively non-democratic way) a large city and the surrounding suburbs. Not so in Paris, where because of the number of départements this is unthinkable. So some of the communes of the suburbs have taken to unite in Communautés... Each having a president and councillors, too.

Oh, and it's also different for water, waste disposal, etc..., where various Syndics usually cover parts of Greater Paris.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

RMDSz used to gather all streams of political movements based among ethnic Hungarians. It was stable enough to be in the position of kingmaker, joining or supporting from the outside successive governments. However, on one hand, such cooperation with the also nationalist (Romanian-nationalist) main parties didn't result in the fulfillment of most of its programme (the thorniest issue being territorial autonomy at least for the Szeklers, who make up that almost homogenous Hungarian-speaking area in the middle of the country that is all green on pereulok's map). On the other hand, the main right-wing, currently opposition party Fidesz (official full name: Fidesz-MPP!) in Hungary wanted and wants to build a power base among ethnic Hungarians abroad to strengthen its nationalist credentials. Thus more hardcore groups broke off RMDSz, and their rival movements ultimately coalesced in the Szekler-land-based MPP (same acronym as Fidesz's by-name). Despite initial successes, MPP and its precursors failed to eclipse the RMDSz, so after a long tussle over the effect of splitting votes, the two made an agreement: they'll run against each other in the local elections; but in the parliamentary elections, they'll run on a joint list, weighed according to their local elections success.

Even while MPP ran at fewer places (in mayoral candiates, 60% less), the above results show a spectacular failure: 4.39% vs. 0.74% in council votes, 148 vs. 6 first-round mayors. Also, RMDSz won 4 county presidents while MPP won none, and RMDSz can send 78 mayoral candidates into the second round, MPP only 13.

So RMDSz again feels free to attack MPP and its backer in Hungary loudly for undercutting the 'common cause'. They point out that RMDSz would have won a fifth county, would its candidate have received the 2,000 votes for MPP's candidate.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

The above mentioned ethnic Hungarian rivals 'excelled' in uncovering each others' campaign silence breaks, too.

Then there is the mayoral election in the city of Târgu Mureş (Hungarian: Marosvásárhely, German: Neumarkt am Mieresch). In that city, the vote was always ethnicity-based: most of the time, the national parties ran in coalition against RMDSz. This time, too. And RMDSz filed a complaint allenging and allegedly documenting extensive vote manipulation: break of campaign silence in all on-site media (think of loudspeakers in cars, telephones), bus transport for Gypsies living on the edge of town, stealing the camera of a journalist filming the illegal campaign (with police present not intervening), multiple, seal-less and mising ballots, voters being told they already voted, hindering the work of the independent observers, campaigning exit pollsters, non-joint ballot counting. (I wonder how much of the evidence is solid, but it is said to consist of photographs and videos.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}